Natural Language Generation enhances human decision-making with uncertain information
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Decision-making is often dependent on uncertain data, e.g. data associated with confidence scores or probabilities. We present a comparison of different information presentations for uncertain data and, for the first time, measure their effects on human decision-making. We show that the use of Natural Language Generation (NLG) improves decision-making under uncertainty, compared to state-of-the-art graphical-based representation methods. In a task-based study with 442 adults, we found that presentations using NLG lead to 24 decision-making on average than the graphical presentations, and to 44 decision-making when NLG is combined with graphics. We also show that women achieve significantly better results when presented with NLG output (an 87 increase on average compared to graphical presentations).
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