Detailed characteristics of RosaeNLG

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Table 1. RosaeNLG main characteristics
Characteristic RosaeNLG

Licence

open-source (MIT)

Language for templates

based on Pug, the leading JavaScript templating engine

Language for data prep

JavaScript

Ecosystem

the whole JavaScript ecosystem

Connectivity during execution

can connect to anything

Ease of authoring for technical users

quite good

Ease of authoring for business users

not ready for business users

Ease of installation

standard npm module

Ease of integration

in any node.js app, or directly in browser

Continuous integration ability

as any other JavaScript app

Speed of compilation

very fast (JavaScript generation)

Speed of generation

very fast: 3 ms for a 130 words (850 chars) text on a cheap 2018 laptop (< 1 ms when parallelized)

Synonyms algorithm

random based, sequence, or "choose the best" global mode

Languages

very good coverage on English and French; good on German and Italian

Linguistic resources

English:

  • verbs

  • plurals of words

French:

  • gender of each word (la couleur / le poids)

  • plural of words

  • agreement of adjectives

  • extensive verbs list

  • possessives (la couleur du téléphone)

German:

  • gender of words (das Telefon / die Gurke)

  • some cases mechanisms (NOMINATIVE and GENITIVE)

  • possessives (die Farbe der Gurke)

  • adjectives (der alten Gurke)

  • verb (large list, and all tenses)

Italian:

  • gender of words (la torta / il cameriere)

  • adjectives (affari sporchi / begli specchi)

  • punctuation, apocopes

  • verb (large list, and all tenses)

Other languages:

  • core features only, no linguistic resources, no dates and numbers formatting

Functional coverage

good

Reliability

ready for production grade systems