What is Special About Natural Language Generation Research

Abstract

Since the guidance given to the panel was more provocative than regulative, I have organized my statement around just one of the questions: What is special about Text Generation relative to NL Understanding? This breaks down conveniently into parts: 1. Are there foundational ideas that generation and understanding work share? 2. What are the technical distinctives of generation? 3. Are those distinctives real? 4. What are the special characteristics of generation as a research task?

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA460222

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  • William C. Mann

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  • University of Southern California

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  • Information Science
  • Language
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  • Natural Language Processing
  • Natural Language Understanding
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  • Scientific Research
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  • Education

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  • Computational Linguistics
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
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