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  <Title>Portable Natural Language Generation using SPOKESMAN</Title>
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2. Modularization
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In our earlier work, generation involved three modules: a linguistic realization component (LRC) MUMBLE-86 (Meteer, et.al 1987), an underlying application program, and a special purpose text planner to handle the mapping from one to the other. The text planner used the input specification language to Mumble-86 as a means of compensating 1 The work reported here was done at BBN Systems and Technologies, Cambridge, Massachusetts. I would like to thank all of my BBN colleagues, in particular Glenn Abrett, Stephen Deutsch, Dawn MacLaughlin, and Varda Shaked, for their contributions to this work during my tenure at BBN.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1">  for the semantic deficits of linguistically naive underlying application programs without compromising principled grammatical treatments in natural language generation.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> V///~/ALBM.spedfic text planner/,//A ('u nderl ying represent ation * I(EE ) Y~/~ iu ........... : . . _ . . n</Paragraph>
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