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  <Title>Towards the application of text generation in an integrated publication system*</Title>
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(DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES)
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Each of these stages has particular information needs, which are then instantiated with respect to the knowledge base. For example, for the stage ACTIVITIES, the information needed consists of events and activities the artist dealt with is involved in as actor or causer. This is specified in an SFK retrieval pattern with the artist (Behrens) as starting point and providing the slot path along which the retrieval takes place; this is shown in  An example of the result of this information request is as follows:</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Here a number of domain instances (SFK-337, etc.) with particular types (e.g., MEACREATION, MEAOBJECT, etc.) are returned. These types are as defined in the field conceptual hierarchy. Instances with particular types also have associated roles (e.g., ACTOR, TARGET, PARTOF). The instance specification as a whole represents a partial register-stratum structure. This partial structure is then filled out to a maximal description by traversing the register-stratum classification networks. This traversal is partially constrained by the GSP, by the instantial domain structure, and the specified context of generation. The result of this traversal is a full set of register features, and a set of corresponding constraints on the semantic and discourse realization of the generic stage. An extract from a register 'profile' resulting from such a traversal is shown in Figure 5.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> These constraints are then applied during the further lexicogrammatical expression of the information retrieved from the knowledge base in order to construct an appropriate text. This is mediated by the localdiscourse semantics that groups the information of the generic stage into rhetorically organized semantic specifications. These specifications consist of a statement of the propositional content, plus discourse constraints. An example is shown in Figure 6.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> The final (English) text then generated is, in this case, as follows.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="5"> &amp;quot; -- Behrens's principal activities were architecture and industrial design. -- He made electrical appliances and prototype flasks. -- He built the high tension plaxLt aa~d the turbine factory for AEG in 1908 - 1910. -- He built a housing area for the workers of AEG in Henningsdorf. -- He created a number of monumental buildings, such as the administration building of Mannesmann in Duesseldorf and the German embassy in St. Petersburg.&amp;quot; The text could clearly be improved in a number of ways, many of which form active areas of research. Similar texts are created for German and Dutch.</Paragraph>
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  <Section position="6" start_page="157" end_page="158" type="metho">
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5 Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper we have presented the experimental interfacing of a multilingual text generation system, KOMET-PENMAN, to domain knowledge about arts and art history in an editor's workbench assisting the publication of an art encyclopedia. The major improvement that the application of text generation offers is a gain in flexibility with regard to the presentation of views on the domain knowledge. The text generation system itself organizes the access to the domain knowledge in a linguistically-motivated way: The representation of genre constrains information access, thus predefining, as it were, the textual views that are possible to be taken on the information contained in biographical entries in the encyclopedia. The method proposed for the editor's workbench</Paragraph>
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  <Section position="7" start_page="158" end_page="160" type="metho">
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(SPATIALLY-LOCATED TEMPORALLY-UNLOCATED HUMANITIES EXPLORATION
WRITTEN-TRANSMISSION CENTRAL-PARTICIPANT
MEACREATION-REALiZATION DOA-ACTIVITIES ACTIVITY-EXPECTANCY
TIMES-PAST ACTIViTY-SEQUENCE FIELD UNMARKED-AFFECT ONE-OFF
UNINVOLVED-CONTACT UNEQUAL-STATUS TENOR NONPSEUDO-UNPROJECTED
UNPROJECTEDGENRE-STRUCTURED SOLIDIFIED VISUALLY-0BJECTIFIED INFORMING
DOCUMENTATION PUBLIC-GENERAL PUBLIC AURAL-NONE VISUAL-NONE MODE
REGISTER MEACP4~ATION START)
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    <Section position="1" start_page="160" end_page="160" type="sub_section">
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7th International Generation Workshop * Kennebunkport, Maine * June 21-24, 1994
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      <Paragraph position="0"> can be taken further to apply to the overall publication scenario and to a possible electronic publication, offering the newly added functionality to the reader also.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph position="1"> Future work within the scenario described here will now include: * expansion of the genres available, * expansion of the discourse semantics to improve textuality, null * an investigation of the use of a genre representation for also structuring a (restricted) NL query interface, null * an investigation of the user of the generalized types of the domain knowledge upper structure for facilitating information retrieval, * a coordination of the textual realization of views on domain knowledge with a graphical presentation mode--thus other presentation styles to be automatically generated should include graphics, tables, figures etc.; some early steps towards this in the editor's workbench context are presented in \[Kamps, 1993\].</Paragraph>
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