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  <Title>The General Architecture of Generation in ACORD*</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> 'I~he ACOI~D prototype offers an interactive update and query of a knowledge-base (Kn). In the query situation the user asks the KB using natural language and possibly graphical pointing. The final response composed of natural language and also if appropriate, graphical highlighting, is generated with a language specific generator, in the three ACORD languages (English, French and German) using the same grammar formalisms and grammars employed in parsing: ucc for English and French, and LFG for German. The generators are fully described in \[9\] for the UCG framework, and in \[3\] and \[5\] for the LFG framework.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The objective of this paper is to describe the modules common to the three languages, which build the semantics of the answer to be generated using the semantics of the question posed to the system, the dialogue history, and the KB answer.</Paragraph>
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