When is text generation useful?

We have identified and pursued applications in several domains, which involve generation from diverse types of data, but which usually possess most of these key characteristics:

• Text (written or spoken) is the most appropriate means of communicating the data to its intended audience;

• There is a need for large volumes of text;

• The text must accurately convey a given message;

• The text must be written in a correct and consistent style;

• The text must be produced very rapidly, or with other performance requirements which rule out human authoring;

• The text requires frequent updating in order to remain consistent with the data it describes.