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  <Title>Planning Word-order Dependent Focu s Assignments*</Title>
  <Section position="9" start_page="161" end_page="161" type="concl">
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7 Summary and outlook
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Sentence planning for the realization of focus/background structures in German comprises the -determination of .discourse relational.features for the realization of an appropriate word order and the determination of the focus of the respective propositions. With this information available a competition based formulator is able to realize the focus donlain, word order, and accent bearers within the focus domain.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> tion and compatil)le wit h our fi)cus principle.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> While hierarchical planning of discourse relational features for the use of LP-rules during surface realization seems to be a promising approach for word order dependent focus/background determination, additional constraints on word order are required to block overgeneration. The three LP-rules 6 are necessary, but no sufficient means to determine free word order in general. Next to these discourse-related rules there are syntactic and semantic restrictions on word order as well. However, due to their discourse-related nature, the conditions for using our LP-rutes can be-derived from the. discourse model. Syntactic and semantic constraints on word order do not require a discourse model.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> To summarize, the combination of hierarchical content planning with grammatical competition in view of a focus principle seems to be a promising approach for focus/background determination.</Paragraph>
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