What is the state of the art in text synthesis?

What is the state of the art in text synthesis?

There is no Wikipedia entry for “text synthesis”.

However, there are Wikipedia entries for “Natural language generation” and “Automatic summarization”:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_generation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_summarization

There are recently answered questions on Quora in these topics:

http://www.quora.com/Natural-Language-Generation

http://www.quora.com/Summarization

On Wikipedia StatSheet is referred to as “automated publishing”:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StatSheet

The only thing I could find on Wikipedia directly related to automated publishing was “Dynamic publishing”:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_publishing

There was a Quora question on “dynamic semantic publishing” which I’ve added to your “text synthesis” topic:

http://www.quora.com/Text-Synthesis