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Skills Required to Use Different NLG Technologies

Apr 4, 2019Apr 4, 2019 ehudreiter1 Comment

An important difference between different approaches to building NLG systems is the skills needed to use these approaches to build systems. Machine learning requires the most skills, smart templating the least, and simplenlg-type programmatic approaches are in the middle.

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How Should Different NLG Components Add Value?

May 17, 2018 ehudreiterLeave a comment

Some comments on how different components in the NLG pipeline can “add value” by contributing to the ultimate goal of generating texts that easy for people to read and understand.

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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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