The entity-relationship model—toward a unified view of data
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) - Special issue: papers from the international conference on very large data bases: September 22–24, 1975, Framingham, MA
Database abstractions: aggregation and generalization
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
Extended semantics for generalization hierarchies
SIGMOD '78 Proceedings of the 1978 ACM SIGMOD international conference on management of data
Towards a Computational Theory of Definite Anaphora Comprehension in English Discourse
Towards a Computational Theory of Definite Anaphora Comprehension in English Discourse
Generating natural language text in response to questions about database structure
Generating natural language text in response to questions about database structure
Augmenting a database knowledge representation for natural language generation
ACL '82 Proceedings of the 20th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Summarizing natural language database responses
Computational Linguistics
Providing Quality Responses with Natural Language Interfaces: The Null Value Problem
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
JYAG & IDEY: a tempelate-based generator and its authoring tool
Eighteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence
An augmented template-based approach to text realization
Natural Language Engineering
A response to the need for summary responses
ACL '84 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
A pragmatics-based approach to understanding intersentential ellipsis
ACL '85 Proceedings of the 23rd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Augmenting a database knowledge representation for natural language generation
ACL '82 Proceedings of the 20th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Providing a unified account of definite noun phrases in discourse
ACL '83 Proceedings of the 21st annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Design of a knowledge-based report generator
ACL '83 Proceedings of the 21st annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
YAG: a template-based generator for real-time systems
INLG '00 Proceedings of the first international conference on Natural language generation - Volume 14
Focus constraints on language generation
IJCAI'83 Proceedings of the Eighth international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Story plot generation based on CBR
Knowledge-Based Systems
Adaptive information for consumers of healthcare
The adaptive web
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Computer-based generation of natural language requires consideration of two different types of problems: 1) determining the content and textual shape of what is to be said, and 2) transforming that message into English. A computational solution to the problems of deciding what to say and how to organize it effectively is proposed that relies on an interaction between structural and semantic processes. Schemas, which encode aspects of discourse structure, are used to guide the generation process. A focusing mechanism monitors the use of the schemas, providing constraints on what can be said at any point. These mechanisms have been implemented as part of a generation method within the context of a natural language database system, addressing the specific problem of responding to questions about database structure.