Content and rhetorical status selection in instructional texts
Published 1 January 1994Open access
Leila Kosseim, Guy Lapalme
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The approach taken starts from an AI task planner building a task representation, from which semantic carriers are selected, and the most appropriate RST relations to communicate these carriers are chosen according to heuristics developed during the corpus analysis.
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This paper discusses an approach to planning the content of instructional texts. The research is based on a corpus study of 15 French procedural texts ranging from step-by-step device manuals to general artistic procedures. The approach taken starts from an AI task planner building a task representation, from which semantic carriers are selected. The most appropriate RST relations to communicate these carriers are then chosen according to heuristics developed during the corpus analysis.
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