FoG: The Birth of Commercial NLG
I did my Ph.D. on NLG in the late 1980s, 35 years ago! Amy Tobin, who runs the Arria blog, asked me to reflect on the early days of NLG. I […]
This 22-Year-Old Book on NLG is Still Relevant
Back in 2000, I wrote a book on Building Natural Language Generation Systems (co-authored with Robert Dale, who worked for Arria in its early years). Many people, including Arria staff
Humans Post-Editing NLG-Generated Narratives
There are times people want to edit an NLG-produced narrative before it is released; this is called “post-editing.” Typically, this involves adding additional content that is hard to automatically generate,
The Grand Challenge for NLG: Making Data Accessible to Humans
Twenty years ago, the UK Computing Research Committee asked me what my vision and “grand challenge” was for artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language generation (NLG). I told them that