Before revision:  Generating natural language has fundamentally been a human attribute and the advent of ubiquitous NLP applications and virtual agents marks the need to impart this skill to machines. There has been a colossal research effort in various frontiers of neural text generationincluding machine translation, summarization, image captioning, storytelling etc., We believe that this is an excellent juncture to retrospect on the directions of the field.
After revision:  In order to progress research in text generation, it is critical to absorb the existing research works and position ourselves in this massively growing field.