"May I Speak Freely?" : between templates and free choice in natural language generation ; workshop at the 23rd German Annual Conference for Artificial Intelligence (KI'99), Bonn14.-15. September 1999

This paper uses the algorithm employed in a number of recent template-based NLG systems to challenge the wide-spread assumption that template-based methods are inherently less well-founded than plan-based methods.

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