Natural Language Generation

Emiel van Miltenburg; Chenghua Lin

doi:10.1016/b978-0-323-95504-1.01353-3

Natural Language Generation

Emiel van Miltenburg
, Chenghua Lin

Communication and Cognition

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Abstract

Natural Language Generation (NLG) regards the automatic production of text. This overview focuses on common appli-
cations, approaches to text generation, and ways to evaluate NLG systems. A list of open research questions is also provided.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Reference Module in Social Sciences
Publisher	Elsevier
ISBN (Print)	9780443157851
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-323-95504-1.01353-3
Publication status	Published - 2026

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