</term>
. The
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SPR
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uses
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ranking
#1419Second, the sentence-plan-ranker (SPR) ranks the list of output sentence plans, and then selects the top-ranked plan .
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scoping
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, i.e. the choice of
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syntactic structure
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for
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elementary speech acts
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#1315Sentence planning is a set of inter-related but distinct tasks, one of which is sentence scoping, i.e. the choice of syntactic structure for elementary speech acts and the decision of how to combine them into one or more sentences.
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<term>
sentence plans
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for a given
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text-plan input
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. Second , the
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sentence-plan-ranker
#1397First, a very simple, randomized sentence-plan-generator (SPG) generates a potentially large list of possible sentence plans for a given text-plan input .