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Part 1 Introduction: what this book is about; the phenomena considered;the aims of the work; starting points; an overview of the system; structureof the book. Part 2 The representation of entities: some ontological problemsin recipes; a survey of objects in recipes; generalized physical objects;eventualities; the representation language summarized; limitations. Part 3The generation of connected discourse: an overview of EPICURE; deciding whatto say; discourse generation and domain modelling; generating clauses. Part 4Generating referring expressions: introduction; referring; building nounphrases; initial references. Part 5 Generating anaphoric references: thepronominalization decision; subsequent reference; "one"-anaphora; thereferring expression algorithm summarized. Part 6 A worked example: thetarget recipe; the ingredients of recipe generation; generating the discoursespecification; generating the text; conclusions.