Natural language generation

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Natural language generation (NLG) is a software process that produces natural language output. A widely cited survey of NLG methods describes NLG as "the subfield of artificial intelligence and computational linguistics that is concerned with the construction of computer systems that can produce understandable texts in English or other human languages from some underlying non-linguistic representation of information". While it is widely agreed that the output of an NLG process is text, there is disagreement over whether its input must be non-linguistic. Some definitions restrict NLG to generating text from non-linguistic representations. In contemporary NLP, the broader category of text generation may also encompass open-ended generation, summarization, translation, paraphrasing, and question answering. Common applications of NLG methods include the production of various reports, for example weather and patient reports; image captions; and chatbots like ChatGPT. Automated NLG can be compared...

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