Generating Precondition Expressions in Instructional Text

Imagene Penman

This study employs a knowledge intensive corpus analysis to identify the elements of the communicative context which can be used to determine the appropriate lexical and grammatical form of instructional texts. imagene, an instructional text generation system based on this analysis, is presented, particularly with reference to its expression of precondition relations.

Towards Generating Procedural Texts: An Exploration of their Rhetorical and Argumentative Structure

Instructional texts consist of sequences of instructions designed in order to reach an objective. The author or the generator of instructional texts must follow a number of principles to guarantee that the text is of any use. Similarly, a user must follow step by step the instructions in order to reach the results expected. In this paper, we explore facets of instructional texts: general protot...

Generating InStructional Text Thematic Progression and Realization in Multilingual Administrative Forms

Expressing Rhetorical Relations in Instructional Text: A Case Study of the Purposes Relation

Natural language provides an extensive set of lexical and grammatical forms for expressing concepts, a set from which writers choose the particular form that they feel will produce the most effective expression given the communicative context. An important task of the text generation researcher is to specify both the range of these forms and the contexts in which they are used. This paper addre...

Expressing Rhetorical Relations in Instructional Text: A Case Study of the Purpose Relation

Natural language provides an extensive set of lexical and grammatical forms for expressing concepts, a set from which writers choose the particular form which they feel will produce the most effective expression given the communicative context. An important task of the text generation researcher is to specify both the range of these forms and the contexts in which they are used. This paper addr...