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  <Title>XML and Multilingual Document Authoring: Convergent Trends</Title>
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4 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> XML-based authoring tools are more and more widely used in the business community for supporting the production of technical documentation, controlling their quality and improving their reusability. In this paper, we have stressed the connections between these practices and current research in natural language genenttion and authoring. We have described two related fornmlisms which are proposals for removing some of the limitations of XML DTD's when used for tim production of multi-lingual texts.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> From a compt, tational linguist's point of view, there might be little which seems novel or exciting in XML representations. Still XML has a great potential as a lingua.franca and in driving a large community of users towards authoring practices where content is becoming more and more explicit. There may be a great opportunity here for researchers in natural hmguage generation to connect to a growing sot, rce of applications.</Paragraph>
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