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title: "Controlling a Language Generation Planner"
authors:
  - "Sergei Nirenburg"
  - "Victor R. Lesser"
  - "Eric Nyberg"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1989/243"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1989/0243.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1989
pages: "1524-1529"
track: "Speech and Natural Language"
keywords:
---

# Controlling a Language Generation Planner

Sergei Nirenburg, Victor R. Lesser, Eric Nyberg

*Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1524-1529.

## Abstract

The set of partially interdependent lexical and syntactic decisions that have to be made in the process of natural language generation are best seen as a complex planning and search problem. This paper discusses the phenomena involved in natural language generation planning and argues that a blackboard-type architecture with agenda-style control is more appropriate for this task than a sequential control architecture with backtracking. The blackboard architecture we describe is implemented in the language generator DIOGENES.