Method and apparatus for situational analysis text generation

A method for generating a situational analysis text, the method comprising:

• assigning, at least one data channel on which an alert condition was identified, as a primary data channel;
• determining whether one or more data channels that are identified as related to the primary data channel are to be assigned as one or more related data channels, wherein the one or more related data channels are a subset of one or more monitored data channels;
• generating, using a processor, a graph based at least on the data in the primary data channel;
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• generating, using the processor, the situational analysis text for display with the graph, the situational analysis text generated based at least on the data in the primary data channel, wherein the situational analysis text is configured to linguistically express contextual information related to the alert condition.

An apparatus for generating a situational analysis text, the apparatus comprising:

• a data analyzer that is stored in a memory and configured, when executed on a processor, to access input raw data from one or more monitored data channels over a network and to identify at least one data channel of the one or more monitored data channels as the primary data channel based on the detection of an alert condition, wherein the data analyzer is further configured to determine whether one or more data channels that are to be assigned as one or more related data channels, wherein the one or more related data channels are a subset of one or more monitored data channels;
• a data interpreter that is stored in the memory and configured, when executed on the processor, to generate, from the input raw data, language independent data structures that collect underlying data in the primary data channel and the more or more related data channels such that the underlying data is linguistically expressible;
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• a natural language generation system that is stored in the memory and configured, when executed on the processor, to input the one or more generated language independent data structures to determine a scale of a graph and the content of the situational analysis text, wherein the situational analysis text generated based at least on the data in the primary data channel, wherein the situational analysis text is configured to linguistically express contextual information related to the alert condition and wherein the graph is displayable with the situational analysis text and is generated based at least on the data in the primary data channel within the determined scale.