Multilingual document management without translation using natural language generation in the multilingual information society

The authors describe a technique called Symbolic Authoring to generate language neutral symbolic representations of the content of a document, from which documents in each target language are generated automatically, using natural language generation technology. NLG has been developing steadily in recent years, and a number of commercial or near commercial systems now exist. Many of these systems take their input from some external data source. The idea of Symbolic Authoring is simply to allow the user to specify the generator input directly.