This volume includes revised final versions of the best papers presented at the fourth European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, EWNLG '93, held in Pisa, Italy in April 1993. Out of the 35 papers accepted for presentation at the workshop, 19 were selected for publication in this book.
The papers deal with NLG from different perspectives: linguistics, artificial intelligence, psychology, and engineering. The broad spectrum covered and the outstanding quality of the papers presented are evidence of the remarkable dynamism of the field.

Les ressources lexicales (dictionnaires, bases de donnees, thesaurus, etc.) rassemblent des connaissances sur les mots, leurs sens et leurs usages. Si pendant des siecles elles ont ete tributaires de l'imprimerie et du format textuel, il existe de nos jours une grande variete d'outils et de ressources accessibles sous des formats electroniques divers. Ainsi, la facon de considerer les ressources lexicales a change considerablement ces dernieres decennies. On a vu notamment apparaitre des ressources non plus concues en tant qu'entites statiques, mais modelisees sous forme de bases de donnees...