Generating natural language text in response to questions about database structure
Generating natural language text in response to questions about database structure
Dependencies of discourse structure on the modality of communication: telephone vs. teletype
ACL '82 Proceedings of the 20th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Salience: the key to the selection problem in natural language generation
ACL '82 Proceedings of the 20th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Communications of the ACM
Integrating text planning and linguistic choice without abandoning modularity: the IGEN generator
Computational Linguistics
PHRED: a generator for natural language interfaces
Computational Linguistics
Using focus to generate complex and simple sentences
ACL '84 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Knowledge structures for natural language generation
COLING '86 Proceedings of the 11th coference on Computational linguistics
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Planning provides the basis for a theory of language generation that considers the communicative goals of the speaker when producing utterances. One central problem in designing a system based on such a theory is specifying the requisite linguistic knowledge in a form that interfaces well with a planning system and allows for the encoding of discourse information. The TELEGRAM (TELEological GRAMmar) system described in this paper solves this problem by annotating a unification grammar with assertions about how grammatical choices are used to achieve various goals, and by enabling the planner to augment the functional description of an utterance as it is being unified. The control structures of the planner and the grammar unifier are then merged in a manner that makes it possible for general planning to be guided by unification of a particular functional description.