@mastersthesis{Foster1,
  author = "Mary Ellen Foster",
  title = "Automatically generating text to accompany information graphics",
  school = "Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto",
  month = "August",
  year = "1999",
  note = "Published as technical report CSRI-397",
  abstract = "<P>
              Generally, when quantitative information is to be presented, some form of
              graphical presentation is used, often with a textual caption to ensure that
              the audience notices particular aspects of the data.</p>
              <P>
              This thesis presents the principles that should be followed by a system
              aiming to produce such captions automatically. The process of caption
              generation is examined in the context of the standard tasks in text
              generation. Most previous systems in this area produce textual summaries
              intended to stand alone; the issues involved in producing a caption differ,
              as the text must be coordinated with the graphic it is to accompany. The
              thesis also presents C<SMALL>APUT</SMALL>, a prototype caption-generation
              system which follows these principles to generate single-sentence captions
              for information graphics of the type that might appear in a newspaper
              article. Finally, extensions to C<SMALL>APUT</SMALL> that would bring it
              from a prototype to a full-fledged caption generation system are proposed.</p>",
  download = "ftp://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/csri-technical-reports/397/masters.pdf"
}