Integrating Text Plans for Conciseness and Coherence
<|reference_start|>Integrating Text Plans for Conciseness and Coherence: Our experience with a critiquing system shows that when the system detects problems with the user's performance, multiple critiques are often produced. Analysis of a corpus of actual critiques revealed that even though each individual critique is concise and coherent, the set of critiques as a whole may exhibit several problems that detract from conciseness and coherence, and consequently assimilation. Thus a text planner was needed that could integrate the text plans for individual communicative goals to produce an overall text plan representing a concise, coherent message.   This paper presents our general rule-based system for accomplishing this task. The system takes as input a \emph{set} of individual text plans represented as RST-style trees, and produces a smaller set of more complex trees representing integrated messages that still achieve the multiple communicative goals of the individual text plans. Domain-independent rules are used to capture strategies across domains, while the facility for addition of domain-dependent rules enables the system to be tuned to the requirements of a particular domain. The system has been tested on a corpus of critiques in the domain of trauma care.<|reference_end|>
@article{harvey1998integrating,
    title={Integrating Text Plans for Conciseness and Coherence},
    author={Terrence Harvey and Sandra Carberry (Department of Computer Science,
  University of Delaware)},
    journal={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational
  Linguistics (COLING-ACL '98)},
    year={1998},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cmp-lg/9805010},
    primaryClass={cmp-lg cs.CL}
}