Recursion in TEXT and Its Use in Language Generation

McKeown, Kathleen R.

doi:10.7916/d8hd83p2

Recursion in TEXT and Its Use in Language Generation

Kathleen R. McKeown

AAAI 1983 pp. 270-273

doi:10.7916/d8hd83p2 /aaai/1983/mckeown1983aaai-recursion/

Abstract

In this paper, I show how textual structure is recursive in nature: that is, the same rhetorical strategies that are available to constructing the text's macro-structure are available for constructing its sub-sequences as well, resulting in a hierarchically structured text. The recursive formalism presented can be used by a generation system to vary the amount of detail it presents for the same discourse goal in different situations.

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McKeown. "Recursion in TEXT and Its Use in Language Generation." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1983. doi:10.7916/d8hd83p2

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[McKeown. "Recursion in TEXT and Its Use in Language Generation." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1983.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/1983/mckeown1983aaai-recursion/) doi:10.7916/d8hd83p2

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@inproceedings{mckeown1983aaai-recursion,
  title     = {{Recursion in TEXT and Its Use in Language Generation}},
  author    = {McKeown, Kathleen R.},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {1983},
  pages     = {270-273},
  doi       = {10.7916/d8hd83p2},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/1983/mckeown1983aaai-recursion/}
}