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<Paper uid="W01-0815">
  <Title>Evaluating text quality: judging output texts without a clear source</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We consider how far two attributes of text quality commonly used in MT evaluation - intelligibility and fidelity apply within NLG. While the former appears to transfer directly, the latter needs to be completely re-interpreted.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> We make a crucial distinction between the needs of symbolic authors and those of end-readers. We describe a form of textual feedback, based on a controlled language used for specifying software requirements that appears well suited to authors' needs, and an approach for incrementally improving the fidelity of this feedback text to the content model.</Paragraph>
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