Real versus Template-Based Natural Language Generation: A False Opposition?
Kees van Deemter, Mariët Theune, Emiel Krahmer · Computational Linguistics · 2005
This article challenges the received wisdom that template-based approaches to the generation of language are necessarily inferior to other approaches as regards their maintainability, linguistic well-foundedness, and quality of output. Some recent NLG systems that call themselves “template-based” will illustrate our claims.