Recent Advances in Natural Language Generation: A Survey and Classification of the Empirical Literature
keywords: Natural language processing, document planning, micro-planning, surface realization
Natural Language Generation (NLG) is defined as the systematic approach for producing human understandable natural language text based on non-textual data or from meaning representations. This is a significant area which empowers human-computer interaction. It has also given rise to a variety of theoretical as well as empirical approaches. This paper intends to provide a detailed overview and a classification of the state-of-the-art approaches in Natural Language Generation. The paper explores NLG architectures and tasks classed under document planning, micro-planning and surface realization modules. Additionally, this paper also identifies the gaps existing in the NLG research which require further work in order to make NLG a widely usable technology.
mathematics subject classification 2000: 68T50, 03B65
reference: Vol. 36, 2017, No. 1, pp. 1–32
doi: 10.4149/cai_2017_1_1