Applied Text Generation

While we were able to exploit existing research for many of the design issues, it turned out that we needed to develop our own approach to text planning (Rambow 1990). This paper will present the system and a t tempt to show how these design objectives led to particular design decisions. The structure of the paper is as follows. In Section 2, we will present the underlying application and give examples of the output of the System. In Section 3, we will discuss the overall s tructure of Joyce. We then discuss the three main components in turn: the text planner in Section 4, the sentence planner in Section 5 and the realizer in Section 6. We will discuss the text planner in some detail since it represents a new approach to the problem. Section 7 traces the generation of a short text. In Section 8, we address the problem of portability, and wind up by discussing some shortcomings of Joyce in the conclusion.