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  <Title>Two Sources of Control over the Generation of Software Instructions*</Title>
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10 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper we have shown how genre and task structure provide two essential sources of control over the text generation process. Genre does so by constraining the selection of the task elements and the range of their expressions. These elements, which are the procedural representation of the user's tasks, constitute a layer of control which mediates between genre and text, but which, without genre, cannot control the grammar adequately.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The work presented here is informing the development of our text generator by specifying the necessary coverage of the French grammar to be implemented, the required discourse structures, and the mechanisms needed to control them. We continue to explore further situational and contextual factors which might allow a system to fully control its available linguistic resources.</Paragraph>
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