Text planning is one of the most rapidly growing subfields of language generation. Until the 1988 AAAI conference, no workshop has concentrated on text planning and its relationship to realiza-tion. This report is a summary of that workshop.

Largely from this Traditionally, systems that automatically and realization--was widely experience, we came to understand generate natural language have deemed more convenient than accurate: the sorts of tasks that a text planner been conceived as consisting of two The components of a generator has to perform: determining which principal components: a text planner should be able to communicate at elements to say, coherently structuring and a realization grammar. Recent any level where their information is the input elements, building advances in the art, especially in the applicable.