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Discourse anaphora other than definite NPs have not received much attention in generation. This paper proposes a strategy for generating the additive particle also, a non-nominal discourse anaphor. The strategy is based on a treatment of additive particles as markers rather than presupposition triggers (following [14]) and two sorts of contextually given alternative sets.
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Striegnitz, K. (2004). Two Kinds of Alternative Sets and a Marking Principle – When to Say Also . In: Belz, A., Evans, R., Piwek, P. (eds) Natural Language Generation. INLG 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3123. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27823-8_23
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