This volume presents the proceedings of the SixthInternational Workshop on Automated Natural LanguageGeneration held in Castel Ivano, Trento, Italy, April 5-7, 1992. Besides an invited lecture by Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, a well-known researcher in computer animation, on creatingand visualizing speech and emotion, the volume includes the17 thouroughly reviewed papers accepted for presentation, selected out of the submissions to the Workshop, as well as11 statements contributed to panels on multilinguality andgeneration or extending language generation to multiplemedia. The accepted papers by...

Machine Translation and the Information Soup Over the past fty years, machine translation has grown from a tantalizing dream to a respectable and stable scienti c-linguistic enterprise, with users, c- mercial systems, university research, and government participation. But until very recently, MT has been performed as a relatively distinct operation, so- what isolated from other text processing. Today, this situation is changing rapidly. The explosive growth of the Web has brought multilingual text into the reach of nearly everyone with a computer. We live in a soup of information, an...