Donia Scott
Donia Scott researches natural-language generation and the structure of documents. Her early multilingual-drafting work led to shared DRAFTER papers in 1995 and an original 1996 account of generating English and French software manuals from a knowledge model. Her broader research includes document organization, paraphrasing and material adapted to different readers. ACL elected her a Fellow in 2020.
Timeline
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1993–1995
Multilingual document drafting
Scott presented multilingual document drafting in 1993. She coauthored DRAFTER papers in 1995. The work developed tools for producing instructions in more than one language, with the author specifying the content that the documents should communicate.
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1996
The DRAFTER system
Scott worked on DRAFTER at Brighton’s Information Technology Research Institute. The system generates draft software manuals in English and French from a knowledge model constructed by its authors. The research team included Roger Evans, Cécile Paris, Richard Power and other collaborators.
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Research career
Documents for different readers
Scott researches document structure, paraphrasing and the organization of information above the sentence level. Her work applies to pharmaceutical leaflets, technical manuals and medical records tailored for different readers.
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2020
Recognition in language generation
ACL elected Scott a Fellow in 2020. Her work brings multilingual and multimodal generation together with the design of coherent documents. She had an earlier affiliation with Sussex.
Sources and credits
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