This article challenges the received wisdom that template-based approaches to the generation of language are necessarily inferior to other approaches as regards their maintainability, linguistic well-foundedness, and quality of output. Some recent NLG systems that call themselves ''template-based'' will illustrate our claims.
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%1 citeulike:159100
%A van Deemter, Kees
%A Krahmer, Emiel
%A Theune, Mariet
%D 2005
%I MIT Press
%J Computational Linguistics
%K generation, natural-language
%N 1
%P 15--24
%R 10.1162/0891201053630291
%T Real versus Template-Based Natural Language Generation: A False Opposition?
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/0891201053630291
%V 31
%X This article challenges the received wisdom that template-based approaches to the generation of language are necessarily inferior to other approaches as regards their maintainability, linguistic well-foundedness, and quality of output. Some recent NLG systems that call themselves ''template-based'' will illustrate our claims.
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title = {{Real versus Template-Based Natural Language Generation: A False Opposition?}},
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