Building Natural-Language Generation Systems
arXiv (Cornell University)Published 2 May 1996Open access
Ehud Reiter
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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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