Written Language Generation Task

A Written Language Generation Task is a language generation task that results in written artifacts (in some writing system).

• Context:
  • Input:
    • a Grapheme Set (e.g. alphanumeric system).
    • a Natural Language Type (e.g. English language).
    • a Written Artifact Type (e.g. writing paper).
  • output: a Written Artifact.
  • performance: a Writing Evaluation Measure.
  • It can range from being a Manual Writing Task to being a Automated Writing Task (that can be supported by a written artifact creation system that implements a writing algorithm).
  • It can range from being a One-Pass Writing Task to being a Writing Process.
  • It can range from being a Human-Performed Written Language Generation to being Automated Written Language Generation.
  • It can range from being an Any-Topic Written Language Generation Task to being a Domain-Specific Written Language Generation Task.
  • It can range from being a Text Generation to being Handwritten Generation.
  • It can be instantitated in a Written Artifact Creation Act.
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• Example(s):
  • Text Generation, such as NLG.
  • Handwritten Generation, such as hand-written essay writting.
  • …
  • a Document Writing Task.
  • a Research Paper Writing Task.
  • a Journal Entry Writing Task, such as a Blog Entry Writing Task.
  • a Forum Post Writing Task.
  • a Tweet Writing Task.
  • a Contract Writing Task.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Speaking Task / Speech Generation.
  • a Reading Task.
• See: Writing System, Communication, Vocabulary, Grammar, Semantics, Alphabet, Publication, Storytelling.

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References

2015

• http://chroniclevitae.com/news/1073-the-importance-of-writing-skills-in-tech-related-fields
  • QUOTE: I taught my own writing course. Its theme was medicine, so a lot of pre-med majors signed up. Since it was an intensive summer course, writing assignments were due at the end of each week. Perhaps unsurprisingly, students complained about that, sometimes vociferously. “We’re all science majors,” one student lamented, “so we don’t really need to know how to write.”

2013

• (Wikipedia, 2013) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/writing Retrieved:2013-12-7.
  • Writing is a medium of communication that represents language through the inscription of signs and symbols. In most languages, writing is a complement to speech or spoken language. Within a language system, writing relies on many of the same structures as speech, such as vocabulary, grammar and semantics, with the added dependency of a system of signs or symbols, usually in the form of a formal alphabet. The result of writing is generally called text, and the recipient of text is called a reader. Motivations for writing include publication, storytelling, correspondence and diary. Writing has been instrumental in keeping history, dissemination of knowledge through the media and the formation of legal systems. Under the influence of technologies such as data storage and computer networks, the pace of correspondence and potential for collaboration increased.

    As human societies emerged, the development of writing was driven by pragmatic exigencies such as exchanging information, maintaining financial accounts, codifying laws and recording history. Around the 4th millennium BCE, the complexity of trade and administration in Mesopotamia outgrew human memory, and writing became a more dependable method of recording and presenting transactions in a permanent form. In both Ancient Egypt and Mesoamerica writing may have evolved through calendrics and a political necessity for recording historical and environmental events.

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