Sublanguage Engineering In The Fog System

FoG currently produces bilingual marine and public weather forecasts at several Canadian weather offices. The system is engineered to reflect "good professional style" as found in human forecasts. However, some regularization and simplification of the output has been needed. Sublanguage engineering issues include tradeoffs in coverage and style, handling variation and evolution of sublanguages, "legislating" lexical semantics and assuring a language model able to accomodate new text types and support spoken output. 1 Background and System Overview FoG (for Forecast Generator) was developed during 1985-89 (Kittredge et al., 1986; Bourbeau et al., 1990). After tests at Environment Canada during 1989-91, FoG entered regular use during 1991-92, first for marine forecasts, and more recently for public forecasts. Forty percent of the operational marine forecasts (roughly half of all marine forecast text) in Canada is now produced using FoG. Meteorologists have been very ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1994
• Where: ANLP
• Authors: Richard I. Kittredge, Eli Goldberg, Myunghee Kim, Alain Polguère
• Keywords: ANLP 1994, Marine Forecasts, Operational Marine Forecasts, Public Weather Forecasts