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  <Title>Integrating Text Plans for Conciseness and Coherence*</Title>
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8 Summary
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Integration of multiple text plans is a task that will become increasingly necessary as independent modules of sophisticated systems are required to communicate with a user. This paper has presented our rule-based system, RTPI, for accomplishing this task. RTPI aggregates communicative goals to achieve more succinct text plans, resolves conflict among text plans, and exploits the relations between communicative goals to enhance coherence.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> RTPI successfully integrated multiple text plans to improve conciseness and coherence in the trauma care domain. We will further explore the application of RTPTs domain-independent rules by applying the system to a 1The evaluation examples consisted of the first eleven instances from the test set where RTPI produced new text plans, plus the first example of conflict in the test set.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> different domain. We would also like to develop more domain-independent and some domain-dependent rules, and compare the fundamental characteristics of each.</Paragraph>
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