Real versus template-based Natural Language Generation: a false opposition?

Kees van Deemter; Emiel Krahmer; Mariet Theune

doi:10.1162/0891201053630291

Real versus template-based Natural Language Generation: a false opposition?

Kees van Deemter, Emiel Krahmer, Mariet Theune

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Abstract

This paper challenges the received wisdom that template-based approaches to the generation of language are necessarily inferior to other approaches as regards their maintainability, linguistic well-foundedness and quality of output. Some recent NLG systems that call themselves `templatebased' will illustrate our claims

Original language	Undefined
Pages (from-to)	15-23
Number of pages	9
Journal	Computational linguistics
Volume	31
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1162/0891201053630291
Publication status	Published - 2005

Keywords

METIS-227307
EWI-1798
IR-65551

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