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We describe an approach for generating a wide variety of texts expressing the same content. By treating stylistic features as constraints on the output of a text planner, we explore the interaction between various stylistic features (from punctuation and layout to pronominal reference and discourse structure) and their impact on the form of the resulting text.
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Power, R., Scott, D., Bouayad-Agha, N. (2003). Generating Texts with Style. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2588. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36456-0_47
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