Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
State of the Art
Language Generation and Explanation
Linguistic Approaches: In Defense of a Particular Theory—Formalism
Can a 'Parsing Grammar' Be Used for Natural Language Generation?
The Negative Example of LFG
The Application of Unification for Syntactic Generation in German
Concerning the Logical Component of a Natural Language Generator
Implementational Issues
Two Approaches to Natural Language Generation
The Production of Spoken Dialogue
Natural Language Generation from Plans
An Approach for Creating Structued Text
Psychological Issues
Automatic and Executive Processing in Semantic and Syntatic Planning: A Dual Process Model of Speech Production
Incremental Production of Referential Noun-Phrases by Human Speakers
Educational Applications
Natural Languages Are Flexible Tools: That's What Makes Them Hard to Explain and to Use
Index