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  <Title>Applied Text Generation*</Title>
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9 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We are aware of several shortcomings of Joyce, which we will address in future versions of the system.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> * While we have argued in (Kittredge et al 1991) that rhetoric cannot be the central guiding principle in text planning, it appears to play an important role as a constraint on possible text structures. Furthermore, it helps determine the use of connectives between rhetorically related clauses. Finally, it may determine when conceptual breaks occur in text structure which affect sentence scoping (Scott and de Souza 1990). We are currently investigating the option of augmenting the DCK schemas with rhetorical annotations.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> * The current form of the Conceptual/English dictionary is not satisfactory, since the dictionary writer is too free in writing dictionary entries. For example, the dictionary could be used as a back door for the introduction of new content which the text planner was (for whatever reasons) unable to plan. Meteer discusses the same problem in McKeown's original TEXT system (Meteer 1990, p.35). An interface to the dictionary that is more restrictive is needed.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> * While it is possible to set a theme in the text plan, thematic structure has not received sufficient attention. Rules of thematic progression (as implemented, for instance, in McKeown's TEXT) are not taken into consideration. Furthermore.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> clause combination is also sensitive to thematic structure (Kuno 1976; Derr and McKeown 1986: Iordanskaja 1989), which is currently not taken intc account.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="5"> Despite these shortcomings, Joyce has proven to be successful and useful tool in the Ulysses user interface. I! has met the design objectives of speed and quality, and our experience in porting the text generator to new task., and to new applications indicates that Joyce is a flexible system that can adapt to a variety of text generatior tasks.</Paragraph>
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