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1、Appearedin:ProceedingsoftheFourthBellcore/BCCSymposiumonUser-CenteredDesign,November3-5,1993,Piscataway,NJ.User-NeedsAnalysisandDesignMethodologyforanAutomatedDocumentationGeneratorK.Kukich²K.McKeown³J.Shaw³J.Robin³J.Lim³N.Morgan²J.Phillips²²Bellcore445SouthStreetMorri
2、stown,NJ07960-6438kukich@bellcore.com³ColumbiaUniversityComputerScienceDepartmentNewYork,NY10027mckeown@cs.columbia.eduABSTRACTTelephonenetworkplanningengineersroutinelystudyfeederrouteswithinthetelephonenetworkinordertocreateandre®nenetworkcapacityexpansion(relief)pla
3、ns.IndoingsotheymakeuseofapowerfulsoftwaretoolcalledLEIS*-PLAN.WearedevelopinganextensiontoPLANcalledPLANDocthatwillautomaticallygeneratenaturallanguagenarrativesdocumentingtheengineers'useofPLAN.Inthispaper,wepresenttheuser-needsanalysisanddesignmethodologywehaveused
4、indevelopingthePLANDocsystem.Wedescribeourinterviewswithvariousenduserstodetermineifsuchasystemwouldbedesirableandwhatdesignfactorswouldmakeituseful.Weshowhowwemodelthesystemonasetofiteratively-revisedhuman-generatednarratives.Themodelnarrativesdeterminethefunctionanda
5、rchitectureofthedocumenta-tionsystem,andtheyinformthedevelopmentofthesystemcomponents.1.IntroductionUser-needsanalysishasbecomeacommonpracticeinthedevelopmentofcomputer-humaninterfacesystemsandotherend-usersoftware.Nielsen1993a,Landauer1993aHowever,AIsystemsarefrequent
6、lydevelopedwithoutananalysisoftheenduser'sneeds.Particularlyindevelopingalargescale,practicalAIsystem,theneedsoftheusershouldbestudiediftheresultingsystemistobeeffectivelyused.Inthispaper,wereportonauser-needsanalysisandsystemdevelopmentmethodologythatweareusinginouron
7、goingdevelopmentofanautomateddocumentationhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh*LEISisaregisteredtrademarkofBellcore,Livingston,NJ.-2-system,PLANDoc,fortelephonenetworkplanningoperations.WearesystematicallymodelingPLANDocafteratargetsetofmanually-writtennarrativesthathaveundergonesuccess
8、iverevi-sionsbasedonusercritiques.Weshowhowuserinputhasin¯uencedboththeformandcontentofPLANDocnarrativesandthedesigno