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  <Title>Mithras Annexe</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We report here on work which addresses the message-to-syntax mapping in the context of automatic generation of instructional texts the kinds of texts found in the procedural parts of manuMs or information leaflets, pharmaceuticM products. Instructional texts do not simply consist of lists of imperatives: instructions may also describe, eulogise, inform and explain. Generating good-quality draft instructions requires a detailed specification of how to map from semantic representations of the task actions onto a wide range of linguistic expressions.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Our corpus is composed of naturally-occurring instructions in the three languages of study. Our overall approach is to obtain different-language drafts that are congruenl with the technical content embodied in the task to be performed (and with other relevant information about the task).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> A satisfactory level of congruence requires the use of syntactic and pragmatic rules appropriate to each target language, mat)ping fi'om the semantics to appropriate expression in a way that is frec from influence from any source language 1. We 1See (Hartley and Paris, 1995) for discussion of the begin the generation process with a plan-based model of the underlying task} In our study, we have looked at two specific procedurM relations that can hold between pairs of actions in a task, identified by the philosopher Alvin Goldman as the relations of GENEP~-</Paragraph>
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