System Name
STOP
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System Builders Reiter, Robertson, Osman, Lennox
Development Dates 1997-2001
Languages English
URL (if available) http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/research/stop
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Description:

The STOP (Smoking Termination with cOmputerised Personalisation) system generates personalized smoking-cessation letters. The aims of the project are:

  • To develop a computer system for generating tailored letters to help people stop smoking
  • To research knowledge acquisition (KA) techniques to acquire text-planning and sentence-planning rules from domain experts
  • To evaluate the clinical effectiveness of the computer generated letters in a general practice setting
  • To evaluate the cost effectiveness of this brief smoking cessation intervention
The system evaluation has now been completed.

An online demo of the system can be reached here.

References

Scott Lennox, Liesl Osman, Ehud Reiter, Roma Robertson, James Friend, Ian McCann, Diane Skatun, and Peter Donnan.
The Cost-Effectiveness of Computer-Tailored and Non-Tailored Smoking Cessation Letters in General Practice: A Randomised Controlled Study.
British Medical Journal, 322:1396--1400, 2001.linkhttp://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7299/1396 Main reference

E. Reiter, R. Robertson, and L. Osman.
Lessons from a Failure: Generating Tailored Smoking Cessation Letters.
Artificial Intelligence, 144:41--58, 2003.linkhttp://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~ereiter/papers/aij03.pdf

E. Reiter, A. Cawsey, L. Osman, and Y. Roff.
Knowledge Acquisition for Content Selection.
In W. Hoeppner, editor, 6th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, pages 117--126, 1997.

E. Reiter, A. Cawsey, L. Osman, and Y. Roff.
Knowledge Acquisition for Content Selection.
In W. Hoeppner, editor, Proceedings of the 6th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation EWNLG'97, pages 117--126, Duisburg, Germany, 1997.link

Ehud Reiter, Roma Robertson, and Liesl Osman.
Types of knowledge required to personalise smoking cessation letters.
In Werner Horn, editor, Artifical Intelligence and Medicine: Proceedings of AIMDM-1999, pages 398--399. Springer, Berlin, New York, 1999.link

Ehud Reiter, Roma Robertson, Scott Lennox, and Liesl Osman.
Using a Randomised Controlled Clinical Trial to Evaluate an NLG System.
In Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2001), pages 434--441, 2001.link

Ehud Reiter.
Pipelines and Size Constraints.
Computational Linguistics, 26(2):251--259, 2000.linkhttp://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~ereiter/papers/cl00.pdf

Ehud Reiter, Roma Robertson, and Liesl Osman.
Knowledge Acquisition for Natural Language Generation.
In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Natural Language Generation, pages 217--224, 2000.link

E. Reiter and L. Osman.
Tailored patient information: some issues and questions.
In Proceedings of ACL/EACL97 Workshop: ``From research to commercial applications: making NLP technology work in practice'', pages 29--34. Association for Computational Linguistics, 1997.link

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