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  <Title>A Media-Independent Content Language for Integrated Text and Graphics Generation</Title>
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5 Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper describes a media-independent knowledge representation scheme, or content language, for describing the content of communicative goals and actions. The language is used within an intelligent system for automatically generating integrated text and information graphics presentations about complex, quantitative information. To ensure that the language will be applicable to a variety of quantitative domains, it is based upon a corpus analysis of integrated natural language and graphics presentations. The language is designed to satisfy four requirements: to represent information about complex quantitative relations and aggregate propertiess; compositionality; to represent certain pragmatic distinctions needed for satisfying communicative goals; and to be usable as part of the input to the media-specific (text and graphics) generators.</Paragraph>
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