Evaluation in Medicine and NLG/NLP
Evaluation in NLP/NLG has a long way to go before it reaches the standards of hypothesis testing in clinical medicine
Text or Graphics?
Which is a better way to present information, text or graphics (information visualisation)?
Good Papers are Hard to Publish
Is it the case that important papers with major impact are *harder* to publish? This certainly seems to have been my experience
Commercial and Academic Perspectives on NLG (and AI?)
Perhaps not surprisingly, there are major differences in emphasis between commercial and academic work on NLG
NLG vs Templates: Levels of Sophistication in Generating Text
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
The story of simplenlg
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.
Natural Language Generation and Machine Learning
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.
Ehud Reiter's Blog 