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  <Title>Stochastic Language Generation Using WIDL-expressions and its Application in Machine Translation and Summarization</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We propose WIDL-expressions as a flexible formalism that facilitates the integration of a generic sentence realization system within end-to-end language processing applications. WIDL-expressions represent compactly probability distributions over finite sets of candidate realizations, and have optimal algorithms for realization via interpolation with language model probability distributions. We show the effectiveness of a WIDL-based NLG system in two sentence realization tasks: automatic translation and headline generation.</Paragraph>
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