TI An Object-Oriented Approach to Content Planning for Text
Generation 

LT CUCS-004-90 

OR COLUM 

YR 1990 

AU Ursula Wolz 

AV ftp cs.columbia.edu:pubreportsreports-1990cucs-004-90.ps.Z 

AB This paper describes Genie, an object-oriented architecture
that generates text with the intent of extending user expertise
in interactive environments. Instead of generating text based
solely on either discourse goals, intentions, or the domain, we
found a need to combine techniques from each.  We have developed
an object- oriented architecture in which the concepts about
which we talk (domain entities), the goals that may be
accomplished with them (intentions), and the rhetorical acts
through which we express them (discourse goals) are represented
as objects with localized knowledge and methods. A three stage
process of content selection, content structuring and content
filtering is presented. Content selection and structuring allow
us to produce text that is within the context of the task at hand
for the user.  Content filtering allows us to revise and
restructure the utterance to achieve clarity and conciseness.