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  <Title>Real-time Natural Language Generation in NL-Soar</Title>
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8 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The primary challenge for NL-Soar's generation processing is to perform generation in a way that allows flexible shifting of control between language and task operations. As we have seen, NL-Soar provides this flexibility by organizing generation as a sequence of incremental steps that can be interleaved with task actions as the situation requires. The result is a language generation capability that can be integrated with task operations at a broad level (as we did in NTD-Soar) or a more fine-grained level (as we did in TacAir-Soar); in critical situations, task operations can even interrupt language operators.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> This interleaving is driven by the requirements of the situation in which the system is operating; when there are no time-critical non-linguistic tasks pending, language can proceed uninterrupted. Thus NL-Soar provides the flexible control a system operating in a real-time environment needs.</Paragraph>
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