Evolving questions in text planning
Mick O’Donnell · 2008
This paper explores how the main question addressed in Text Planning has evolved over the last twenty years. Earlier approaches to text planning asked the question: How do we write a good text?, and whatever answers were found were programmed directly into code. With the introduction of search-based text planning in recent years, the focus shifted to the evaluation function, and thus the question became: How do we tell if a text is good? This paper will explore these evolving questions, and subsequent refinements of them as the field matures.