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One major goal of artificial intelligence research in natural language generation is to develop a means of producing utterances that are natural and as close as possible to what humans would produce, given a similar domain and a similar need to communicate.
This paper appeared in Artificial Intelligence Volume 25, 1985 on pages 1–33. It is reprinted with the permission of North-Holland Publishing Company, Holland
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Appelt, D.E. (1988). Planning Natural-Language Referring Expressions. In: McDonald, D.D., Bolc, L. (eds) Natural Language Generation Systems. Symbolic Computation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3846-1_3
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