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DPOCL: a principled approach to discourse planning

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R. Michael Young,

Johanna D. MooreAuthors Info & Claims

INLG '94: Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Natural Language Generation

Pages 13 - 20

Published: 21 June 1994 Publication History

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Research in discourse processing has identified two representational requirements for discourse planning systems. First, discourse plans must adequately represent the intentional structure of the utterances they produce in order to enable a computational discourse agent to respond effectively to communicative failures [15]. Second, discourse plans must represent the informational structure of utterances. In addition to these representational requirements, we argue that discourse planners should be formally characterisable in terms of soundness and completeness.

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INLG '94: Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Natural Language Generation

June 1994

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Bolt Beranek & Newman, Cambridge

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Jhala AYoung R(2006)Representational requirements for a plan based approach to automated camera controlProceedings of the Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment10.5555/3023108.3023115(36-41)Online publication date: 20-Jun-2006
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