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<Paper uid="W01-1301">
  <Title>Generating a 3D Simulation of a Car Accident from a Written Description in Natural Language: the CarSim System</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper describes a prototype system to visualize and animate 3D scenes from car accident reports, written in French.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The problem of generating such a 3D simulation can be divided into two subtasks: the linguistic analysis and the virtual scene generation. As a means of communication between these two modules, we flrst designed a template formalism to represent a written accident report. The CarSim system flrst processes written reports, gathers relevant information, and converts it into a formal description. Then, it creates the corresponding 3D scene and animates the vehicles.</Paragraph>
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