Building Natural-Language Generation Systems

1996/05/02 by Ehud Reiter, Reiter, Ehud · 20 citations
Computer Science · #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation #Natural Language Processing Techniques #Speech and dialogue systems #cmp-lg #cs.CL

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cmp-lg/9605002

Standard LaTeX. A 3-page paper of no research interest, but occasionally useful in helping to explain applied NLG to people with little knowledge of the field. Presented at the AIPE workshop in Glasgow

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Abstract

This is a very short paper that briefly discusses some of the tasks that NLG systems perform. It is of no research interest, but I have occasionally found it useful as a way of introducing NLG to potential project collaborators who know nothing about the field.

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