Génération automatique de textes en langue naturelle

Automatic generation is a recent domain dedicated to the production of written texts from abstract representations or from numerical data. One way to produce sentences while avoiding the difficulties of automatic generation consists in using pre-recorded texts. However, this method becomes cumbersome when there is a number of pre-recorded texts. It can be improved by allowing them to include variables. Yet, it will be shown that the use of variables requires the pre-recorded sentences to be annotated with linguistic information so that syntactic operations can be applied to them. In fact, the use of variables entails adopting techniques that fall in the domain of automatic generation. Such techniques will be presented briefly.