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<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?> <Paper uid="C94-1060"> <Title>ON LEXICALLY BIASED DISCOURSE ORGANIZATION IN TEXT GENERATION</Title> <Section position="8" start_page="374" end_page="374" type="concl"> <SectionTitle> 6 CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK </SectionTitle> <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper, we argue<l that it, is useful Lo distinguish between two levels of discourse organization: a global discourse organization, which is not afli~cted by linguistic means; and a finer discourse orgauizal,iou, which is built tip in accordance with the linguistic material that is availal>le for the meaning communicated.</Paragraph> <Paragraph position="1"> We have shown that reiteration aud collocatiott relations may function as discourse stru<:ture relatious and that these relations are well represented by Lez'ical Function sequences. We presented a taxonomy of lexically biased discourse strucl:ure relations, which is related to lIalliday's proposal for grouI>ing inter-clausal logico-semantic relations aud suggested l.o use this taxonomy ill a lexical ch<>ice niodule.</Paragraph> <Paragraph position="2"> One of the ope=n problenis we face is how sulli<:iently detailed COlltP, Xtllal COllstrailits Cttll be aC(lllircd ill or: der to guide the choice of one discourse structllre relation over others. '.\['his will ccrtaillly be olle of the topics we wilI have to address in the future.</Paragraph> </Section> class="xml-element"></Paper>