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PhD Studentship: Advanced Data Storytelling

May 19, 2017May 19, 2017 ehudreiter1 Comment

I’m looking for a PhD student to work on Advanced Data Storytelling!

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Regression to Mean

May 18, 2017May 18, 2017 ehudreiterLeave a comment

Some explanation and advice about regression to mean, which is a statistical phenomena that can impact NLG evaluations.

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You Need to Understand your Corpora! The Weathergov Example

May 9, 2017May 9, 2017 ehudreiter6 Comments

People who use corpora to build NLG systems need to understand what is in the corpora. The widely used Weathergov corpus, for example, probably contains computer-generated texts rather than human-written texts. So learning from it is essentially reverse-engineering a rule-based NLG system.

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How to do an NLG Evaluation: Metrics

May 3, 2017May 5, 2017 ehudreiter6 Comments

I am really dubious about evaluations based on BLEU and other metrics. I explain why, and also give advice on best practice for people who are committed to using metrics

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How to do an NLG Evaluation: Task-Based (Extrinsic) Performance in Real-World Context

Apr 27, 2017Apr 27, 2017 ehudreiter5 Comments

Advice on how to evaluate an NLG system by getting people to use it in the real world, and then measuring how effective the system was.

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Academic Teaching vs Commercial Training Courses

Mar 29, 2017 ehudreiterLeave a comment

I’ve just finished delivering a commercial training course, it was a very different (and in many ways better) experience than the academic teaching I’ve done for decades

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Why isnt there More Open-Source NLG Software?

Mar 17, 2017Mar 17, 2017 ehudreiter5 Comments

Why isnt there more open-source NLG software, and what can be done to encourage more open-source NLG?

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How to do an NLG Evaluation: Human Ratings in Real-World Context

Feb 23, 2017 ehudreiter4 Comments

Advice on how to evaluate an NLG system by asking human subjects to rate the system, when they are using it in a real-world context.

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Writing NLG Pages for Wikipedia

Feb 15, 2017May 19, 2017 ehudreiter1 Comment

My experiences in writing NLG pages for Wikipedia; mostly positive, but sometimes frustrating.

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How do I Build an NLG System: Testing and Quality Assurance

Feb 10, 2017 ehudreiter2 Comments

How do we test an NLG system, and ensure that it is robust, reliable, and meets its quality goals?

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