{"pk":31790,"title":"Generating Effective Instructions","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses a corpus-based approach to the\ngeneration of effective instructions. The approach\nadvocated employs a detjiiled linguistic study of a\ncorpus of a broad range of instructional texts to de-\ntermine both the range of grammatical forms used\nin instructional text and the contexts in which they\nare vised. The forms that are consistently used by\ntechnical writers are taken to be the most effective.\nThe results of this study are implemented in an auto-\nmated text generation system for instructional text.\nThe primary focus of this study has been the use\nof rhetorical relations to effectively code actions and\ntheir procedural relationships in instructional text,\nbut the approach can generally be applied to differ-\nent linguistic issues and text genres.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Submitted Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/66x4f980","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Keith","middle_name":"Vander","last_name":"Linden","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Colorado","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1993-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/31790/galley/22858/download/"}]}