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Good Papers are Hard to Publish

Dec 23, 2016Dec 23, 2016 ehudreiter6 Comments

Is it the case that important papers with major impact are *harder* to publish? This certainly seems to have been my experience

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Commercial and Academic Perspectives on NLG (and AI?)

Dec 21, 2016 ehudreiterLeave a comment

Perhaps not surprisingly, there are major differences in emphasis between commercial and academic work on NLG

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NLG vs Templates: Levels of Sophistication in Generating Text

Dec 18, 2016Dec 19, 2016 ehudreiter3 Comments

I dislike talking about “NLG” vs “templates” because these terms are poorly defined. I prefer to talk about five levels of sophistication in generating texts, which I describe in this post

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The story of simplenlg

Dec 15, 2016Apr 25, 2018 ehudreiter8 Comments

Simplenlg has evolved over 20 years from a set of Java classes I threw together for a project, into the most widely used open-source NLG package. In this blog I give a quick summary of its history.

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Natural Language Generation and Machine Learning

Dec 12, 2016Dec 18, 2016 ehudreiter6 Comments

Machine Learning and statistical corpus techniques are often very useful in Natural Language Generation, but they are not the best way to solve all NLG problems.

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