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  <Title>Paying Heed to Collocations</Title>
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5 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> SPUD uses a single body of syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic knowledge to generate both productive and conventional descriptive expressions. Hence, SPUD offers a natural framework for dealing with the interactions between syntax, semantics and pragmatics which characterize the sentence planning problem, and ensuring contextually appropriate output. This knowledge produces good results; however, it is very expensive to build. The system requires rich descriptions of language and of the world, which for now must be specified by hand. Only SPUD's underlying reasoning mechanisms are completely application independent, but others are at least partly reusable. Specifications of world knowledge can be used for generation in many languages, while linguistic specifications apply across many domains. For different languages, SPUD's model may vary along a number of dimensions, including the exact range of objects which roughly corresponding lexical items can describe, and the (default) salience rankings--both for typical properties and actions associated with objects and for the information states licensing idioms. Such differences will allow SPUD to generate different collocations in different languages, even when describing the same entities.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> We have implemented a preliminary version of SPUD, and realized the examples discussed in section 4. Our future work includes refining this implementation and enriching its linguistic knowledge. null</Paragraph>
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