Based on a suggestion of Chris Cooley on the wiki, let's pull the topic of "Theoretical and practical underpinnings of the natural language generation" earlier. I started a page (basically empty), and hope we'll over time work together on the structure of the page.

Abstract Wikipedia will generate natural language text from an abstract representation. This is not a novel idea, and it has been tried a number of times before.

On this new page we aim to collect different existing approaches. It tries to summarize the core ideas of the different approaches, their advantages and disadvantages, and point to existing implementations. This page (by and for the community) will help to choose which approach to focus on first when we get to it.

We have some time - I hope that part of the project will kick off in 12-18 months, it all goes well. It would be great if we would have a good and understandable overview of the state of the art by then.

Thanks everyone,

Denny