Cahill, L., J. Carroll, R. Evans, D. Paiva, R. Power, D. Scott and K. van Deemter (2001) `From RAGS to RICHES: exploiting the potential of a flexible generation architecture'. In Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Toulouse, France. 98-105.
The RAGS proposals for generic specification of NLG systems includes a detailed account of data representation, but only an outline view of processing aspects. In this paper we introduce a modular processing architecture with a concrete implementation which aims to meet the RAGS goals of transparency and reusability. We illustrate the model with the RICHES system - a generation system built from simple linguistically-motivated modules.
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