But what do you need to produce a But?

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Abstract: But what do you need to produce a But? Michael Elhadad and Kathleen R. McKeown Department of Computer Science 450 Computer Science Building Columbia Univexsity New York. N.Y. 10027 Arpanet: Arpanet: mbiaedu COCS-334-88 January 1988 We study the problem of appropriately generating connectives (e.g., 'but', 'because', 'since', 'however') in a discourse.

• connectives
• variety of themes
• turns
• crucial specification on the design of a surface generator
• argumentative orientation
• discourse
• theme
• description
• interpretation
• structure