Constraints on Layout in Multimodal Document Generation John Bateman University of Bremen Judy Delin University of Stirling Patrick Allen University of Bradford Overview Background to the Project Levels of Representation for Generation Rhetorical Structure in Document Generation Rhetoric Meets Practicality Conclusions and Further Research Background to the Project GeM: Genre and Multimodality Genre model of illustrated document types Close work with designers and layout professionals Practical constraints on design tasks Aimed at multimodal NLG Levels of Representation Content Structure the structure of the information to be communicated Rhetorical Structure the rhetorical relationships between content elements, the ‘argument’ Navigation Structure the ways in which the intended mode(s) of consumption of the document is/are supported Layout Structure the nature, appearance and position of elements on the page Genre is constituted in... The necessity to satisfy goals at these levels, and to address constraints: Canvas constraints arising out of the physical nature of the object Production constraints arising out of the production technology Consumption constraints arising out of the way in which the object is mediated/consumed Rhetorical Structure in Document Generation The necessity to satisfy goals at these levels, and to address sources of constraint: Canvas constraints arising out of the physical nature of the object Production constraints arising out of the production technology Consumption constraints arising out of the way in which the object is mediated/consumed CT DTON 218th year No 49 Thursday, March 23, 2000 48p PAG S F ATUR CONTST Litter , the mix Time we all MA O R The critics’ choice and previews of Oscar night mucked in Today’s Token Page 15 INSIDE Brankin back at work after surgery Blair puts NHS crusade Deputy Sports and Culture Minister Rhona Brankin was back at her desk yesterday, six weeks after undergoing surgery for breast cancer. Around 3300 new cases are diagnosed each year in Page 9 at heart of election fight Home News Nazi fears Challenge for health £10m top of the range sale service to reform BENEDICT BROGAN, MURRAY RITCHIE AND ALAN MACDERMID TONY Blair yesterday pinned His decision to take personal his hopes of re-election to a charge of the issue confirmed that British authorities feared national crusade to reform the health has overtaken education as in 1948 that the Russians NHS. the big battleground of the next might spring seven Nazi He appealed to the health ser- election. Ministers are growing war criminals, including vice to match the Budget billions increasingly worried that the Albert Speer, from on offer from the Treasury with absence of visible improvements Spandau prison, secret fundamental reform. in the NHS, particularly in Eng- papers released today In England, the changes could land, is a turn-off for voters. reveal. see private sector managers Mr Blair’s statement was derid- brought in to take over failing ed by Tory leader William Hague, Page 3 NHS trusts, and hospitals being who accused him of speaking in awarded cash on the basis of their recycled cliches. He warned: “The ability to meet strictly enforced Prime Minister has now taken per- Politics performance targets. sonal responsibility for the health On hold Parallel moves north of the Bor- service. We will now hold him der would have to be sanctioned personally responsible.” Construction of a £22.8m by the Scottish Executive, but the At Holyrood, to warm applause, home for the Welsh Prime Minister made clear yester- Ms Deacon signalled the Execu- Assembly was put on hold day he intended to stress the tive’s “absolute determination” to yesterdayby Wales’s First “National” in NHS by making its turn round Scotland’s health Minister Rhodri Morgan. overhaul a UK-wide project. record. “We will take these new Page 7 Scottish Health Minister Susan resources to tackle the habit which Deacon chose to focus on her kills more Scots than any other. announcement that money raised We want fewer smokers, fewer Books from the Budget increase on babies growing up with the legacy Write times tobacco would be used to fund the of smoking, fewer deaths from biggest public health improvement smoking.” The London Book Fair is programme in Scottish history. The £26m will also be used for doing a roaring trade, She said Scotland’s £26m share of a Health Promotion Fund to meet discovers Alexander the money would be used for “the long-term targets for better health Linklater, and our reviewers biggest ever springboard to do and social justice. “Not meddling peruse the latest releases. what needs to be done in Scotland: or nannying, but for the first time Pages 16 and 17 to wage war on ill health amongst delivering step-change improve- our people”. ments in lifestyles through diet Comment Chancellor Gordon Brown in and exercise.” his Budget unveiled a long-term Ms Deacon also promised to What wags programme to increase annual extend screening into new areas of Jack Webster reveals the NHS spending by more than a disease and across wider age Sea view: the Black Cuillins, on the market for £10m. The clan chief has pledged the rugged range on Skye will stay in the public domain Picture: PETER JOLLY winner of the annual Wags third, which will bring British groups, and step up vaccination Dinner while our intrepid expenditure on health close to the programmes. Diarists dare to repeat the European average of 8%. Spend- Liberal Democrat health best lines from his speech. ing will rise from £49.3bn this spokeswoman, Nora Radcliffe, Clan chief puts Black year to £68.7bn in 2004. welcomed the establishment of Page 19 In the Commons, Mr Blair, the health promotion fund as the making his first statement in the fulfilment of a long-standing Lib- Bill chamber as Premier on a purely Dem commitment. Cuillins on the market domestic issue, confirmed he has However, SNP Shadow Health taken personal responsibility for Minister Kay Ullrich claimed the Government’s efforts to pro- Scotland was owed an extra duce visible improvements in the £1.1bn if Ms Deacon were to RAYMOND DUNCAN NHS in time for next year’s match Mr Brown’s goal of expected General Election. increased health spending. ONE of Scotland’s most people of Skye. It goes to show tenant farmers and local He will chair a UK-wide com- Scottish Tory leader David famous mountain ranges has that one thing worse than a communities accessing mittee, including First Minister McLetchie said the £300m ear- been offered for sale at more thieving foreign landlord is a Heritage Lottery Funding at Donald Dewar, which will seek to marked by the Chancellor for than £10m by a clan chief. greedy Scottish one.” District Valuer’s valuation. even out disparities in the ailing Scotland must be spent specifical- The aim is to raise funds to He also said it demonstrated Potential partners could service. ly on the public services identified repair an 800-year-old castle the need to get land reform include the council, Highlands While Mr Blair stressed the by Mr Brown, and the Executive which is the seat of a leading through Parliament at top and Islands Enterprise, importance of consultation must not divert the new money to clan. speed to stop “the obscenity of Scottish Natural Heritage and between the Government and the pay for the “ever-spiralling cost” Skye’s Black Cuillins, one of the National Trust for the country’s most spectacular Scotland. doctors, nurses, and managers of the new Parliament building. INSIDE “Fifty square miles of high- who run the NHS, Ministers have The announcements in Westmin- landscapes and an area of Councillor Michael Foxley, already drawn up plans to force ster and Holyrood were welcomed major international chair of the land and rise midge habitat ... I’ll be The chief’s castle itching to know what they the pace of change by threatening by health professionals. Dr Ian importance, has been put on environment select committee, get for it.’’ health authorities with manage- Bogle, chairman of the BMA, the market by the 29th Chief – Page 2 said: “We will be seeking a ment sackings and cash penalties. expressed his delight that Ministers of the Clan MacLeod. meeting in the very near The Prime Minister set five had had a change of heart over the John MacLeod of MacLeod future to set the ball rolling.” TV 36 & 37 challenges for the NHS, including way it wished to involve the med- yesterday described the landlords trying to cash in on The 64-year-old owner of one to the health professions, ical profession in its future plans. decision to sell as the most public concern for areas like Dunvegan Castle said the move Intimations 2 which could see nurses given Mrs Margaret Pullin, acting difficult of his life and “an the Cuillins”. to sell the 35 square miles of responsibilities currently reserved Scottish Secretary of the Royal extremely painful experience”. The 23,300 acres include rugged landscape was Weather 4 to doctors and consultants. College of Nursing, praised the The move brought strong more than 14 miles of principally economic. Mr World News 14 Mr Blair said: “I say to our Government’s “bravery” in com- criticism from Western Isles coastline, two salmon rivers, a MacLeod called the mountain hard-working and dedicated staff mitting so heavily to preventive MP Calum MacDonald. He sheep farm and farmhouse. range “part of my soul”. He Arts 17 in the NHS: you challenged us to health measures which would not said: “The idea of selling the News of the sale prompted a vowed the Cuillins, once a Letters 18 come up with the money.