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| A workshop held at the German Annual Conference on AI, KI-99, in Bonn, Germany, September 13-15, 1999 |
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| A Workshop of the Special Interest Group 1.3.1 on Natural Language Systems of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. |
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Natural language generation (NLG) technology is currently finding its way into commercial systems. Generally the techniques used in NLG applications and application-oriented NLG systems differ from those utilized in research systems. While the latter typically aim at general solutions, the former are geared towards solving particular classes of NLG problems. This involves dealing with canned texts or templates rather than with free choice from the coverage of complex linguistic grammars. Correspondingly, different systems encode linguistic knowledge at different levels of detail and sophistication.
This workshop aimed at exploring the tension between more general and more specific approaches to NLG, thereby clarifying what NLG technology is suited best for which task. The workshop presented and discussed 10 papers from international researchers and developers in the field of NLG. Thus it provided an excellent opportunity for both developers and users of NLG systems to get an overview over existing state-of-the-art technology and its optimal usage.
For more details, please consult the Call for Papers.
The proceedings of the workshop are published as a DFKI Document, D-99-01. It is available as hardcopy to be ordered from the DFKI library, or electronically as a gzipped tar file. Individual papers can be downloaded from the Workshop Schedule page.
Dr. Tilman Becker and Dr. Stephan Busemann
DFKI GmbH
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becker@dfki.de and busemann@dfki.de