What Is a Rhetorical Relation? an Experiment in Combining Two Text Generators
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This paper argues for more precise deenitions of rhetorical relations that have often been proposed as intermediate forms between modules of text generators. As a case in point, we describe the problems we encountered when we combined two text generator systems that we initially thought were complementary: one dealt with \what to say?" and the other with the \how to say?". This experiment brought new insights into the generation process.
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