At the beginning of July our former colleague Himanshu Sarma
successfully defended his doctoral thesis "Virtual Movement from
Natural Language Text".

The aim of the project is to develop a text-to-animation system for
text based physical exercise instruction which contains the
combination of a semantic parser and a Bayesian network.

In the semantic parser, the system extracts all the information
present in the instruction to generate the animation and the Bayesian
network adds some "brain" to the system to extract the information that
is implicit in the instruction