The ability to speak is one of the basic ingredients of human life. We are social animals,
deeply caring for the cohesion of our closest kin and for harmony in our daily personal …

We derive the rhetorical structures of texts by means of two new, surface-form-based
algorithms: one that identifies discourse usages of cue phrases and breaks sentences into …

The problem of organizing information for multidocument summarization so that the
generated summary is coherent has received relatively little attention. While sentence …

The notion that a text is coherent in virtue of therelations' that hold between its component
spans currently forms the basis for an active research programme in discourse linguistics …

This paper summarizes work over the past five years on the automated planning and
generation of multisentence texts using discourse structure relations, placing it in context of …

This paper discusses the planning of multisentential text by computer. In order to construct
coherent paragraphs, we have been using relations from Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) …

In this paper we discuss the design of human-robot interaction focussing especially on
social robot communication and multimodal information presentation. As a starting point we …

Dialogue management technology has developed rapidly over the years resulting in real-
time applications like telephony directories, timetable enquiries, and in-car applications …

The first section contains contributions by Hovy, Scott and de Souza, Cawsey, and McKeown
et al. The first paper, entitled" Unresolved issues in paragraph planning," by Hovy, is a …

The problem of organizing information for multidocument summarization so that the
generated summary is coherent has received relatively little attention. In this paper, we …