This paper addresses this issue in the context of the expression of procedural relations between actions in instructional text. It employs the following four step approach to achieve this goal: (1) Collect a corpus of the relevant text type; (2) Perform a detailed linguistic study of a portion of this corpus, called the training set, and reserving the remainder as a testing set; (3) Implement the
... [Show full abstract] results of this study in a text generation system; (4) Compare the output of the system with the text found in the entire corpus. This has resulted in the construction of IMAGENE, an instructional text generation system which embodies a model of the forms of expression consistently used by instructional text writers over a broad range of instruction types. The details of IMAGENE's