NARRATIVE SUPPORT FOR TECHNICAL DOCUMENTS - Formalising Rhetorical Structure Theory

Nishadi De Silva, Peter Henderson

2005

Abstract

Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) is an area that requires a lot of technical documents and an important feature of a well-written document is a coherent narrative. Even though computer software has helped authors in many other aspects of writing, support for document narratives is almost non-existent. Therefore, we introduce CANS (Computer-Aided Narrative Support), a tool that uses Rhetorical Structure Theory to enhance the narrative of a document. From this narrative, the tool generates questions to prompt the author for the content of the document. CANS also allows the author to explore alternative narratives for a document. A catalogue of predefined narrative structures for popular types of documents is provided too. Our tool is still in its rudimentary stages but sufficiently complete to be demonstrated.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

De Silva N. and Henderson P. (2005). NARRATIVE SUPPORT FOR TECHNICAL DOCUMENTS - Formalising Rhetorical Structure Theory . In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-19-8, pages 105-110. DOI: 10.5220/0002533501050110

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis05,
author={Nishadi De Silva and Peter Henderson},
title={NARRATIVE SUPPORT FOR TECHNICAL DOCUMENTS - Formalising Rhetorical Structure Theory},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,},
year={2005},
pages={105-110},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002533501050110},
isbn={972-8865-19-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,
TI - NARRATIVE SUPPORT FOR TECHNICAL DOCUMENTS - Formalising Rhetorical Structure Theory
SN - 972-8865-19-8
AU - De Silva N.
AU - Henderson P.
PY - 2005
SP - 105
EP - 110
DO - 10.5220/0002533501050110