REPORT GENERATION

A report generation system including a processor, a report generator coupled to the processor to generate a report, in response to occurrence of a report generation event, a report analyzer coupled to the processor and implementing a financial statement analysis tool including one of a horizontal analysis tool, a vertical analysis tool, or a ratio analysis tool, that identifies an aspect of the report requiring a description, the aspect being at least one of a trend noted in the report and a discrepancy in the report, generates a hypothesis explaining the aspect of the report, using at least one of an abductive reasoning, deductive reasoning, and inductive reasoning, collects an evidence for the hypothesis, based on a relation between entities of the hypothesis, the relation being determined based on a comparison of the entities against knowledge data having information pertaining to the entities, evaluates the hypothesis to generate an evaluation score, based on the collected evidence, and selects the hypothesis for explaining the aspect, based on the evaluation score, and a narrative synthesizer coupled to the processor that generates, using a text planner, a text plan for the selected hypothesis, based on the domain and the user knowledge, generates, using a sentence planner, a sentence plan, based on the text plan, using at least one of the domain, the user knowledge or the linguistic knowledge, and generates, using a sentence realizer, the narrative in natural language text, based on the sentence plan, using at least one of the domain, the user knowledge or the linguistic knowledge provides the selected hypothesis in the natural language text explaining the aspect of the report, and associates the narrative with the aspect of the report. REPORT GENERATION SYSTEM 100 REPORT GENERATOR REPORT ANALYZER HYPOTHESIS GENERATOR EVIDENCE GENERATOR NARRATIVE SELECTOR 135 NARRATIVE SYNTHESIZER 115