Table of Contents

Part 1 The generation gap: overview; defining the problem; Text Structure - an intermediate level of representation for text planning. Part 2 Terminology and issues: the generation process; issues. Part 3 Motivations from language and applications: analysis of revision; motivations from applications; summary. Part 4 The Text Structure: linguistic resources; determining the vocabulary of Text Structure; the Text Structure representation. Part 5 The architecture of Spokesman: overview of Spokesman; building the Text Structure; building the linguistic specification; control of the text planner. Part 6 Text Structure in action: incremental text generation from the "Main Street" simulation; Text Structure and portability. Part 7 Alternative architectures: traditional two components systems; non-traditional architectures; summary. Part 8 Conclusion: methodology; summary of the contributions; what does this work have to say to AI in general?; future excitements.