Data-to-Text Bilingual Generation
Guy Lapalme
This document illustrates the use of pyrealb for generating two parallel
texts (English and French) from a single source of data. The data selection and
text organisation processes are shared between the two languages. only language
dependent word and phrasing choices are distinct processes. The realized texts
thus convey identical information in both languages without the risk of being
lost in translation. This is especially important in cases where strict and
simultaneous bilingualism is required. We first present the types of
applications targeted by this approach and how the pyrealb English and French
realizer can be used for achieving this goal in a natural way. We describe an
object-oriented organization to ensure a convenient realization in both
languages. To illustrate the process, different types of applications are then
briefly sketched with links to the source code. A brief comparison of the text
generation is given with the output of an instance of a GPT.