Method, apparatus, and computer program product for user-directed reporting

摘要

A method, apparatus, and computer program product are recited herein for user-directed reporting. In the context of a method, context information is received, wherein the context information defines the data set from which a natural language text or a graph is to be derived. The method further includes generating a set of messages based on the context information. The method further includes generating, by a processor, a context-specific report based on the set of messages and the relationship between them, wherein the context-specific report is configured to linguistically or visually express at least of messages. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are provided.

主权项

1. A method for processing a request that comprises context information received via a user interface to generate a context-specific report generated by a natural language generation system, the method comprising:
receiving context information as a result of a user interaction with the user interface, wherein the context information defines a feature set; converting, by a processor, the received context information into a structured query language (SQL) query to retrieve relevant data from a data repository; generating a reduced data set from the data repository, wherein the reduced data set corresponds to data received in response to the SQL query; generating a set of messages that describe at least one or linguistically describable trend in the reduced data set, wherein the set of messages are instantiated based on an analysis of the reduced data set; and generating, by a natural language generation system that is configured to execute on the processor, a context-specific report about the feature set based on the set of messages and a predefined relationship between them drawn from an ontology, wherein the context-specific report at least one of linguistically or visually expresses data in at least a portion of the messages.