Natural Language Generation New Results in Artificial Intelligence, Psychology and Linguistics

I Pragmatic Aspects.- 1. Some pragmatic decision criteria in generation.- 2. How to appear to be conforming to the ‘maxims’ even if you prefer to violate them.- 3. Contextual effects on responses to misconceptions.- 4. Generating understandable explanatory sentences.- 5. Toward a plan-based theory of referring actions.- 6. Generating referring expressions and pointing gestures.- II Generation of Connected Discourse.- 7. Rhetorical Structure Theory: description and construction of text structures.- 8. Discourse strategies for describing complex physical objects.- 9. Strategies for generating coherent descriptions of object movements in street scenes.- 10. The automated news agency: SEMTEX — a text generator for German.- 11. A connectionist approach to the generation of abstracts.- III Generator Design.- 12. Factors contributing to efficiency in natural language generation.- 13. Reviewing as a component of the text generation process.- 14. A French and English syntactic component for generation.- 15. KING: a knowledge-intensive natural language generator.- IV Grammars and Grammatical Formalisms.- 16. The relevance of Tree Adjoining Grammar to generation.- 17. Notes on the organization of the environment of a text generation grammar.- 18. A formal model of Systemic Grammar.- 19. Generating answers from a linguistically coded knowledge base.- 20. A computer model of Functional Grammar.- 21. Utterance generation from semantic representations augmented with pragmatic information.- V Stages of Human Sentence Production.- 22. Exploring levels of processing in sentence production.- 23. Incremental sentence production, self-correction, and coordination.- 24. A theory of grammatical impairment in aphasia.- VI Aspects of Lexicalization.- 25. Stages of lexical access.- 26.Where do phrases come from: some preliminary experiments in connectionist phrase generation.- 27. The generation of tense.- 28. Perceptual factors and word order in event descriptions.- 29. Metacomments in text generation.- Name Index.