Guided natural language interface for print proofing

A color management method comprising:

• storing a plurality of issue description templates in computer memory, each template being configured for guiding a user in formulating a problem statement characterizing, in natural language, a problem related to color identified in an input document, each of the templates including an issue description related to a different problem, the issue description including an ordered arrangement of nodes including field nodes corresponding to a plurality of fields, at least some of which are fillable by a user, and production and morphological rules, the production rules modeling how values of nodes influence other nodes for propagating features of filled fields of the issue description to one or more other fields of the issue description, the morphological rules each describing a syntactic relationship between at least two of the nodes;
• receiving an input document;
• with a processor, instantiating one of the templates based on information from at least one of an associated detector and a user concerning a problem related to color identified in the input document;
• iteratively refining a problem statement, comprising:
• presenting at least one of the fillable fields to a user and integrating user selected content of the filled fields;
• applying the production rules;
• and
• applying the morphological rules;
• thereby generating a refined problem statement in natural language form;
• and
• determining a correction to be applied to the image based on the refined problem statement.

A plurality of templates stored in computer readable memory, each of the templates configured for guiding a user in formulating a problem statement characterizing, in natural language, a problem related to color identified in an input document and comprising:

• an issue description related to a different problem, the issue description comprising an ordered arrangement of nodes including:
• field nodes corresponding to a plurality of fields, at least some of the field nodes being fillable based on user-selected content and at least some of the fields being fillable based on information provided by an associated detector;
• text nodes which support the generation of syntactically correct text strings in the problem statement, in which text content of the text node is filled or modified in response to features of other nodes;
• and
• optionally, fragment nodes which contains a list of child nodes selected from the field nodes, the text nodes, and optionally other fragment nodes;
• production rules which each model how a value of one of the nodes influences at least one other of the nodes;
• and
• morphological rules each describing a syntactic relationship between at least two of the nodes.