Content is King in NLG
Texts produced by NLG systems need to communicate valuable, useful, and accurate information. I would love to see more research on content production and selection in NLG.
Category: building NLG systens
Texts should be adapted to users
If we want to use NLG to communicate information to all sorts of different people, then it would be really helpful if the NLG system can adapt its language to the reading skill, domain knowledge, emotional state, etc of the user. I think this kind of user adaptation is essential to achieving my vision of using NLG to humanise data.
NLG Systems Must be Customisable
Users want to be able to modify and customise NLG systems on their own, without needing to ask developers to make changes. Academic researchers mostly ignore this, which is a shame, since there are a lot of interesting and important challenges.
Real-World Neural NLG
I was very impressed by a recent paper from a team at Facebook about a production-ready end-to-end neural NLG system. Especially interesting to me was the “engineering” approach to key issues such as accuracy, data collection, and latency.
