Detailed characteristics of RosaeNLG

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Table 1. RosaeNLG main characteristics
Characteristic	RosaeNLG
Licence	open-source (Apache 2.0)
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, French, German, Italian and Spanish
Linguistic resources	English: verbs plurals of words a / an sentence mixin (The gardener gave apples to the neighbor.) French: gender of each word (la couleur / le poids) plural of words agreement of adjectives extensive verbs conjugation list possessives (la couleur du téléphone) sentence mixin (Ta femme a prêté ma tondeuse à son neveu.) German: gender of words (das Telefon / die Gurke) cases possessives (die Farbe der Gurke) adjectives (der alten Gurke) verbs (large list, and all tenses) Italian: gender of words (la torta / il cameriere) adjectives (affari sporchi / begli specchi) punctuation, apocopes verbs (large list, and all tenses) Spanish: gender of words adjectives punctuation, apocopes verbs Other languages: core features only, no linguistic resources, no dates and numbers formatting
Functional coverage	good
Reliability	ready for production grade systems