Writing to be searched: A workshop on document creation principles
ACM SIGIR Forum staff · ACM SIGIR Forum · 1986
As computers learn to write English, and others improve at searching it, they ought to benefit from people who know how to do these jobs.We're proposing a workshop bringing together AI specialists in document generation, information retrieval experts, people who know how to write manuals, and those who write programs to evaluate writing.Introduction.In recent years there has been a surge of interest in the use of computer programs that write English.1,2,3 Expert systems, for example, need to explain what they are doing.Programs are making increasing strides in fluency, domain coverage, and expressive power.4, 5 In fact, it is remarkable that there has been a long discussion over the last ten years about whether or not apes have mastered language, based on utterances such as "Please tickle more, come Roger tickle ''6 while computer programs saying things like "The market crept upward early in the session yesterday, but stumbled shortly before trading