What is Special About Natural Language Generation Research.

摘要

Since the guidance given to the panel was more provocative than regulative, I have organized my statement around just one of the questions: What is special about Text Generation relative to NL Understanding. This breaks down conveniently into parts: (1) Are there foundational ideas that generation and understanding work share; (2) What are the technical distinctives of generation; (3) Are those distinctives real; (4) What are the special characteristics of generation as a research task.