About this book
Introduction
Natural language generation (NLG) is a subfield of natural language processing (NLP) that is often characterized as the study of automatically converting non-linguistic representations (e.g., from databases or other knowledge sources) into coherent natural language text. In recent years the field has evolved substantially. Perhaps the most important new development is the current emphasis on data-oriented methods and empirical evaluation. Progress in related areas such as machine translation, dialogue system design and automatic text summarization and the resulting awareness of the importance of language generation, the increasing availability of suitable corpora in recent years, and the organization of shared tasks for NLG, where different teams of researchers develop and evaluate their algorithms on a shared, held out data set have had a considerable impact on the field, and this book offers the first comprehensive overview of recent empirically oriented NLG research.
Keywords
automatic translation human-human communication information extraction information retrieval knowledge learning modeling natural language speech recognition text summarization
Editors and affiliations
- Emiel Krahmer
- Mariët Theune
- 1.Faculty of Humanities, Department of Communication and Information Sciences (DCI)Tilburg UniversityTilburgThe Netherlands
- 2.Human Media Interaction (HMI), Department of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)University of TwenteEnschedeThe Netherlands
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