@InProceedings{bhatnagar-shrivastava-mamidi:2018:ACL2018-SRW,
  author    = {Bhatnagar, Nikhilesh  and  Shrivastava, Manish  and  Mamidi, Radhika},
  title     = {Exploring Chunk Based Templates for Generating a subset of English Text},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of ACL 2018, Student Research Workshop},
  month     = {July},
  year      = {2018},
  address   = {Melbourne, Australia},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {120--126},
  abstract  = {Natural Language Generation (NLG) is a research task which addresses the automatic generation of natural language text representative of an input non-linguistic collection of knowledge. In this paper, we address the task of the generation of grammatical sentences in an isolated context given a partial bag-of-words which the generated sentence must contain. We view the task as a search problem (a problem of choice) involving combinations of smaller chunk based templates extracted from a training corpus to construct a complete sentence. To achieve that, we propose a fitness function which we use in conjunction with an evolutionary algorithm as the search procedure to arrive at a potentially grammatical sentence (modeled by the fitness score) which satisfies the input constraints.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P18-3017}
}