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Carsim: A System to Visualize Written Road Accident Reports as Animated 3D Scenes

Johansson, Richard LU ; Williams, David ; Berglund, Anders and Nugues, Pierre LU orcid (2004) 2nd Workshop on Text Meaning and Interpretation p.57-64
Abstract
This paper describes a system to create animated 3D scenes of car accidents from reports written in Swedish. The system has been developed using news reports of varying size and complexity. The text-to-scene conversion process consists of two stages. An information extraction module creates a structured representation of the accident and a visual simulator generates and animates the scene. We first describe the overall structure of the text-to-scene conversion and the structure of the representation.

We then explain the information extraction and visualization modules. We show snapshots of the car animation output and we conclude with the results we obtained.
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information extraction, Natural language processing, automatic illustration
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Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Text Meaning and Interpretation
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8 pages
publisher
Association for Computational Linguistics
conference name
2nd Workshop on Text Meaning and Interpretation
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Barcelona, Spain
conference dates
2004-07-25 - 2004-07-26
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English
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e15cf8c7-416a-4783-8f0a-80e3b17ed8de (old id 632212)
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http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/W/W04/W04-0908.pdf
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  abstract     = {{This paper describes a system to create animated 3D scenes of car accidents from reports written in Swedish. The system has been developed using news reports of varying size and complexity. The text-to-scene conversion process consists of two stages. An information extraction module creates a structured representation of the accident and a visual simulator generates and animates the scene. We first describe the overall structure of the text-to-scene conversion and the structure of the representation.<br/><br>
We then explain the information extraction and visualization modules. We show snapshots of the car animation output and we conclude with the results we obtained.}},
  author       = {{Johansson, Richard and Williams, David and Berglund, Anders and Nugues, Pierre}},
  booktitle    = {{Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Text Meaning and Interpretation}},
  keywords     = {{information extraction; Natural language processing; automatic illustration}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{57--64}},
  publisher    = {{Association for Computational Linguistics}},
  title        = {{Carsim: A System to Visualize Written Road Accident Reports as Animated 3D Scenes}},
  url          = {{http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/W/W04/W04-0908.pdf}},
  year         = {{2004}},
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