Course Materials

Textbook

Ehud Reiter & Robert Dale,
Building Natural Language Generation Systems,
Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Contents and Chapter 1 (Introduction)

On-line resources

• 10th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
• 11th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
• ACL SIGGEN Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation

Course Topics

1. Introduction
2. NLG in Practice
3. Architectures for NLG
4. Template-based Generation
5. XML-based Generation
6. Text Planning
7. Microplanning 1
8. Microplanning 2
9. Surface Realization 1
10. Surface Realization 2
11. Open Source NLG
12. NLG System Demos
13. New Directions in NLG 1
14. New Directions in NLG 2

© 2001-2008 Graham Wilcock