Using natural-language processing to produce weather forecasts

Author

Goldberg, Eli ; Driedger, Norbert ; Kittredge, Richard I.

Author_Institution

Atmos. Environ. Service, Environment Canada, King City, Ont., Canada

Volume

9

Issue

2

fYear

1994

fDate

4/1/1994 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

45

Lastpage

53

Abstract

Improved numerical weather prediction simulations have led weather services to examine how and where human forecasters add value to forecast production. The Forecast Production Assistant (FPA) was developed with that in mind. The authors discuss the Forecast Generator (FOG), the first application developed on the FPA. FOG is a bilingual report generator that produces routine and special purpose forecast directly from the FPA´s graphical weather predictions. Using rules and a natural-language generator, FOG converts weather maps into forecast text. The natural-language issues involved are relevant to anyone designing a similar system.<>

Keywords

geophysics computing; natural language interfaces; report generators; weather forecasting; FOG; Forecast Generator; Forecast Production Assistant; bilingual report generator; forecast text; graphical weather predictions; natural-language generator; natural-language processing; numerical weather prediction simulation; rules; special purpose forecast; weather forecast; weather maps; Data mining; Humans; Lakes; Natural languages; Production systems; Snow; Spraying; Temperature; Weather forecasting; Wind;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

IEEE Expert

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-9000

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/64.294135

Filename

294135