A Machine-Oriented Logic Based on the Resolution Principle
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Logic for Problem Solving
Knowledge-Based Systems in Artificial Intelligence: 2 Case Studies
Knowledge-Based Systems in Artificial Intelligence: 2 Case Studies
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Generating natural language text in response to questions about database structure
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Machine translation divergences: a formal description and proposed solution
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Describing complex charts in natural language: a caption generation system
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Contextually appropriate reference generation
Natural Language Engineering
ANLC '92 Proceedings of the third conference on Applied natural language processing
Modeling extemporaneous elaboration
EACL '87 Proceedings of the third conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
A computational theory of prose style for natural language generation
EACL '85 Proceedings of the second conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Functional unification grammar revisited
ACL '87 Proceedings of the 25th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Automated inversion of logic grammars for generation
ACL '90 Proceedings of the 28th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Assigning intonational features in synthesized spoken directions
ACL '88 Proceedings of the 26th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
A text generation system for explaining concepts in geometry
COLING '90 Proceedings of the 13th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 3
The lexicon in text generation
HLT '86 Proceedings of the workshop on Strategic computing natural language
Tailoring explanations for the user
IJCAI'85 Proceedings of the 9th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Description-directed natural language generation
IJCAI'85 Proceedings of the 9th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
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One problem for the generation of natural language text is determining when to use a sequence of simple sentences and when a single complex one is more appropriate. In this paper, we show how focus of attention is one factor that influences this decision and describe its implementation in a system that generates explanations for a student advisor expert system. The implementation uses tests on functional information such as focus of attention within the Prolog definite clause grammar formalism to determine when to use complex sentences, resulting in an efficient generator that has the same benefits as a functional grammar system.