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  <Title>FIMBEL Eric</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The following paper concerns a general scheme for multilingual text generation, as opposed to just translation. Our system processes the text as a whole, from which it extracts a representation of the meaning of the text. From this representation, a new text is generated, using a text modei and action ruies.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> This process is done in six steps : word analysis, sentence analysis using a Functional Grammar, reference soiving and inference, construction of the text pattern, sentence generation, and word generation. Different kinds of information are used st each step of the process : text organization, syntax, semantic, etc.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> All the knowledge, as well as the text, is given in a declarative manner. It is expressed in a single formalism named Functional Oescriptions. It consists of lexical data, a Functional Grammar, a knowledge network, action rules for reference solving and sentence generation, models of text, rules of structuration, and sentence schema.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> Text representation, included in the semantic network, is composed of different kinds of objects (not necessarily distinct) : text organization, syntactical information, objects introduced by the discourse, affirmations on these objects, and links between these affirmations.</Paragraph>
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