Issues for the Generation of Document Deixis

In this paper we describe issues for the computational generation of references to document parts such as sections, pictures, paragraphs etc, which we call document deixis. We discuss the circumstances under which these references need to be used in place of ordinary referring expressions and a number of problems in their generation. We also sketch a preliminary proposal for document deixis generation and point out the impact of generating such references on a traditional natural language generation system architecture.