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Tailored Patient Information: Some Issues and Questions
Ehud Reiter, Liesl Osman
Tailored patient information (TPI) systems are computer programs which produce personalised heath-information material for patients. TPI systems are of growing interest to the natu…
Knowledge Acquisition for Content Selection
Ehud Reiter, Alison Cawsey, Liesl Osman +1
An important part of building a natural-language generation (NLG) system is knowledge acquisition, that is deciding on the specific schemas, plans, grammar rules, and so forth that…
Building Natural-Language Generation Systems
Ehud Reiter
This is a very short paper that briefly discusses some of the tasks that NLG systems perform. It is of no research interest, but I have occasionally found it useful as a way of int…
The Role of the Gricean Maxims in the Generation of Referring Expressions
Robert Dale, Ehud Reiter
Grice's maxims of conversation [Grice 1975] are framed as directives to be followed by a speaker of the language. This paper argues that, when considered from the point of view of…
Computational Interpretations of the Gricean Maxims in the Generation of Referring Expressions
Robert Dale, Ehud Reiter
We examine the problem of generating definite noun phrases that are appropriate referring expressions; i.e, noun phrases that (1) successfully identify the intended referent to the…
NLG vs. Templates
Ehud Reiter
One of the most important questions in applied NLG is what benefits (or `value-added', in business-speak) NLG technology offers over template-based approaches. Despite the importan…
Has a Consensus NL Generation Architecture Appeared, and is it Psycholinguistically Plausible?
Ehud Reiter
I survey some recent applications-oriented NL generation systems, and claim that despite very different theoretical backgrounds, these systems have a remarkably similar architectur…
Automatic Generation of Technical Documentation
Ehud Reiter, Chris Mellish, John Levine
Natural-language generation (NLG) techniques can be used to automatically produce technical documentation from a domain knowledge base and linguistic and contextual models. We disc…