{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Optimizing the Costs and Benefits of Natural Language Generation","authors":[{"name":"Ehud Reiter","slug":"ehud-reiter","given":"Ehud","family":"Reiter","affiliation":""},{"name":"Chris Mellish","slug":"chris-mellish","given":"Chris","family":"Mellish","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"We discuss the costs and benefits of using natural-language (NL) generation technology to produce documentation and on-line help messages, and propose some 'intermediate' generation techniques that provide many ( although not all) of the benefits of more principled 'deep' generation techniques but at a significantly lower cost.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1993/161","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1993/0161.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1993/161.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1993/bibtex/161","volume":{"slug":"1993","title":"Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1993","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1993/","year":1993,"location":"Chambéry, France","dates":"","editors":"Ruzena Bajcsy","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Natural Language","track":"Natural Language","number":161,"pages":{"first":1164,"last":1170},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}