AN OVERVIEW OF THE PENMAS TEXT GENERATION SYSTEM
William C. Mann · 1983
The problem of programming computers to produce natural language explanations and other texts on demand is an active research area in artificial intelligence. In the past, research systems designed for this purpose have been limited by the weakness of their linguistic bases, especially their grammars, and their techniques often cannot be transferred to new knowledge domains. A new text generation system, Penman, is designed to overcome these problems and produce fluent multiparagraph text in English in response to a goal presented to the system. Penman consists of four major modules: a knowledae acauisition module which can perform domain-specific searches for knowledge relevant to a given communication goal; a text planninq module which can organize the relevant information, decide what portion