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Research into natural language generation has often divided the processing into separate text planning and linguistic realization components. Despite this division's intuitive plausibility and practical utility, it ultimately interferes with some of the decisions necessary in the generation process. The IGEN generator, described here, implements a solution to this dilemma by having the linguistic component provide feedback to the planner. This feedback is in the form of annotations that describe the effects and consequences of particular linguistic decisions. The planner can then ratify or override the decisions of the linguistic component, without needing any direct access to purely linguistic information. This allows the two components to interact fully while retaining the strict separation of the levels of processing.
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Rubinoff, R. (1992). Integrating text planning and linguistic choice by annotating linguistic 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_4
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