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International Workshop on Natural Language Generation

IWNLG 1992: Aspects of Automated Natural Language Generation pp 183–198Cite as

Using system networks to build rhetorical structures

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We are currently engaged in a project to study the generation of instructional texts for common consumer devices. Our initial efforts have focused on an exhaustive corpus-based analysis of instruction booklets for cordless telephones. In this paper, we present our analysis of the way the various processes used in this domain are expressed. Our emphasis here is on the relationship between the surface grammatical coding of these processes and the underlying rhetorical structure of the text. This analysis has been formalized using a systemic-functional framework, with the resulting system networks forming the basis for the Imagene text generation system.

This work was supported in part by NSF Grant IRI-9109859.

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    Keith Vander Linden, Susanna Cumming & James Martin

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Vander Linden, K., Cumming, S., Martin, J. (1992). Using system networks to build rhetorical structures. In: Dale, R., Hovy, E., Rösner, D., Stock, O. (eds) Aspects of Automated Natural Language Generation. IWNLG 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 587. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55399-1_13

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