Contents

• Introduction
• Natural language generation: Setting the scene
  • Which text? Which methods?
  • Variation: how to describe and control it
  
  
• Natural Language Generation Techniques
  • From application to NLG system: Sources of control
  • Interactions between tasks/modules
  • Text design, planning, and construction
  • Lexicogrammatical realization and its control
  
  
• NLG Methodologies
  • Horizontal methods: broad coverage
  • Vertical methods: relating varying degrees of abstraction
  • Whole system methods
  • Process methodologies
  • Evaluation
  
  
• Conclusions: Problems, bottlenecks, and outlook
• Bibliography
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