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ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Validating the web-based evaluation of NLG systems
The GIVE Challenge is a recent shared task in which NLG systems are evaluated over the Internet. In this paper, we validate this novel NLG evaluation methodology by comparing the ...
Alexander Koller, Kristina Striegnitz, Donna Byron...
INLG
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Extracting Parallel Fragments from Comparable Corpora for Data-to-text Generation
Building NLG systems, in particular statistical ones, requires parallel data (paired inputs and outputs) which do not generally occur naturally. In this paper, we investigate the ...
Anja Belz, Eric Kow
INLG
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Report on the Second NLG Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE-2)
We describe the second installment of the Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE-2), a shared task for the NLG community which took place in 2009-10. W...
Alexander Koller, Kristina Striegnitz, Andrew Garg...
ACL
2001
13 years 6 months ago
From RAGS to RICHES: Exploiting the Potential of a Flexible Generation Architecture
The RAGS proposals for generic specification of NLG systems includes a detailed account of data representation, but only an outline view of processing aspects. In this paper we in...
Lynne J. Cahill, John Carroll, Roger Evans, Daniel...
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
Comparing Automatic and Human Evaluation of NLG Systems
We consider the evaluation problem in Natural Language Generation (NLG) and present results for evaluating several NLG systems with similar functionality, including a knowledge-ba...
Anja Belz, Ehud Reiter
INLG
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Finetuning NLG Through Experiments with Human Subjects: The Case of Vague Descriptions
This discussion paper describes a sequence of experiments with human subjects aimed at finding out how an nlg system should choose between the different forms of a gradable adjec...
Kees van Deemter