CogentHelp: NLG meets SE in a tool for authoring dynamically generated on-line help

CogentHelp is a prototype tool for authoring dynamicallygenerated on-line help for applications with graphical user interfaces, embodying the "evolution-friendly" properties of tools in the literate programming tradition. In this paper, we describe CogentHelp, highlighting the usefulness of certain natural language generation techniques in supporting software-engineering goals for help authoring tools -- principally, quality and evolvabilityof help texts.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: ANLP
• Authors: Michael White, David E. Caldwell
• Keywords: ANLP 1997, Graphical User Interfaces, Help Authoring Tools, Literate Programming Tradition