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Most computer-based text generation systems produce their output in a one-stage operation. We argue that following the human cognitive processes involved in writing as a model, computational generators would be able to produce better text if they were composed of independent but interacting processes dealing with the text at different levels of abstraction and performing various transformations on it. Four levels of purpose, situation, specification and utterance are identified. It is further argued that there are three process of planning, generation and reviewing. Reviewing is singled out as a process which not only produces segments of a lower level from a higher one, but also generates higher level segments from lower level ones. Some heuristics are presented for sentence, paragraph and text revision.
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Yazdani, M. (1987). Reviewing as a Component of the Text Generation Process. In: Kempen, G. (eds) Natural Language Generation. NATO ASI Series, vol 135. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3645-4_13
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