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  <Title>A Flexible Interface for Linking Applications to Penman's Sentence Generator</Title>
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5 Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Penman's interface with applications has been enhanced by the development ofSPL, a new interface notation, and facilities to aid the definition and linking of predefined knowledge sources. These knowledge sources include a model of the application domain, and default attributes that may be modified dynamically by the application.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Because SPL representations may contain linguistic attributes in addition to propositional knowledge, they are able to specify constraints on how something is expressed, when necessary, in addition to specifying what to express. SPL also provides control at varying levels Of detail, accommodating partial specifications that may be augmented by merging information from coreferential terms and default attribute values. The flexibility of SPL makes Penman relatively easy to use for simple applications, without limiting the power of a large general purpose grammar.</Paragraph>
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