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  <Title>What is Special About Natural Language Generation Research?</Title>
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5 Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The set of technical problems that limit the quality of generated text is very different from the corresponding set of problems that limits the quality of natural language understanding. While the problems might, in principle, be problems of both understanding and generation, they are not so in practise.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Generation provides some important advantages over understanding as a research subject, because it does not require coping with an uncontrolled language-user. As a result, research into computational models of communication can sometimes be made more efficient by studying generation.</Paragraph>
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