Natural Language Generation and Semantic Technologies

Kamenka Staykova

doi:10.2478/cait-2014-0015

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Natural Language Generation and Semantic Technologies

Cybernetics and Information Technologies

Volume 14 (2014): Issue 2 (June 2014)

By: Kamenka Staykova

Open Access

|Jul 2014

Abstract

The paper presents a survey of the domain of Natural Language Generation (NLG) with its models, techniques, applications, and investigates how the semantic technologies are drawn into text generation. The idea and facilities of Semantic Web initiative are discussed in connection with the new opportunities offered to the Natural Language Generation.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cait-2014-0015 | Journal eISSN: 1314-4081 | Journal ISSN: 1311-9702

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Published on: Jul 15, 2014

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Keywords:

Natural Language Generation,

semantic technologies,

semantic Web

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Computer sciences,

Information technology

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