'One'-anaphora and the case for discourse-driven referring expression generation
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Conventional approaches to the generation of referring expressions place the task within a pipelined architecture, typically somewhere between text planning and linguistic realisation. In this paper, we look at the issues that arise in generating one-anaphoric referring expressions; examination of this task causes us to reflect on the current predominant architectural models for natural language generation, and leads us to suggest an alternative architecture where decisions that influence forms of reference happen much earlier in the process of natural language generation.
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