Kees Van Deemter
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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.
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- Real versus Template-Based Natural Language Generation: A False Opposition?
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