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  <Title>INTRODUCING MAXIMAL VARIATION IN TEXT PLANNING FOR SMALL DOMAINS</Title>
  <Section position="6" start_page="75" end_page="75" type="concl">
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3 Summary
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have described a simple method for text planning that is suitable to small domains like travel information. Our aim was to introduce maximal variation in the packaging of information and in the linear order of its presentation. To this end, it proved useful to view text planning as a goal-driven process, in Which utterances are used to alter the knowledge state of the user, and their use is restricted only by constraints that refer to the user's knowledge state. This can be * conveniently implemented as a Functional Unification Grammar. In addition, we showed how optional or inferable information can be accounted for, how focus is .distributed, and how the generation of anaphoric expressions can be *constrained by the form and content of the latest utterance. Future work may address the necessity of feedback from surface generator to text planner, and the incorporation of a more *principled account of generating discourse markers.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Furthermore, an evaluation 0f the output with real users would be desirable.</Paragraph>
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