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  <Title>A Framework for Customizable Generation of Hypertext Presentations</Title>
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7 Status
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    <Paragraph position="0"> PRESENTOR is currently implemented in Java and C++, and has been used with success in projects in different domains. We intend to add a declarative specification of formatting style in the near future.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> A serious limitation of the current implementation is the hct that the configurability of PRESENTOR at the micro-planning level is restricted to the lexicalization and the linguistic realization of rhetorical relations. Pronominalization rules remain hard-coded heuristics in the micro-planner but can be guided by features introduced in the presentation representations.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> This is problematic since pronominalization is often domain specific and may require changing the heuristics when porting a system to a new domain.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> CoGenTex has developed a complementary alternative to PRESENTOR, EXEMPLARS (White and Caldwell, 1998) which gives a better programmatic control to the processing of the representations that PRESENTOR does. While EXEMPLARS focuses on programmatic extensibility, PRESENTOR fOCUS on declarative representation specification. Both approaches are complementary and work is currently being done in order to integrate their features.</Paragraph>
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