Description directed control: its implications for natural language generation
Readings in natural language processing
Computer generation of multiparagraph English text
Computational Linguistics
A rational reconstruction of the proteus sentence planner
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Explanation structures in XSEL
ACL '85 Proceedings of the 23rd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Expressing rhetorical relations in instructional text: a case study of the purpose relation
Computational Linguistics
Action relations in rationale clauses and means clauses
COLING '92 Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Actions, beliefs and intentions in rationale clauses and means clauses
AAAI'92 Proceedings of the tenth national conference on Artificial intelligence
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This paper presents an analysis of a family of particular English constructions, all of which roughly express "purpose". In particular we look at the purpose clause, rationale clause, and infinitival relative clause. We (1) show that couching the analysis in a computational framework, specifically generation, provides a more satisfying account than analyses based strictly on descriptive linguistics, (2) describe an implementation of our analysis in the natural language generation system MUMBLE-86, and (3) discuss how our architecture improves upon the techniques used by other generation systems for handling these and other adjunct constructions.