Building Natural-Language Generation Systems

Summary

This is a very short paper that briefly discusses some of the tasks that NLG systems perform and is useful as a way of introducing NLG to potential project collaborators who know nothing about the field.

Keywords

Natural language generation, Nothing, Computer science, Field (mathematics), Natural (archaeology)

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