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title: "Optimizing the Costs and Benefits of Natural Language Generation"
authors:
  - "Ehud Reiter"
  - "Chris Mellish"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1993/161"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1993/0161.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1993
pages: "1164-1170"
track: "Natural Language"
keywords:
---

# Optimizing the Costs and Benefits of Natural Language Generation

Ehud Reiter, Chris Mellish

*Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1164-1170.

## 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.