Contextually Appropriate Ordering of Nominal Expressions Ivana Kruijﬀ-Korbayov´a Geert-Jan Kruijﬀ Contents 1 Introduction 2 2 The Relevance of Word Order Variation 3 2.1 Discussion of Examples ....................... 4 2.2 Word Order and Information Structure ............... 8 3 The Approach in AGILE 11 3.1 Word Ordering Algorithm ...................... 11 3.2 Text Generation Overview ...................... 12 4 Concluding Remarks 13 This paper is based on research carried out within the AGILE project. AGILE (Auto- matic Generation of Instructions in Languages of Eastern Europe) is an international project supported by the European Commission within the COPERNICUS programme, grant No. PL961104. The overall aim of the AGILE project is to develop a multilingual system for generating continuous instructional texts in Bulgarian, Czech and Russian [12]. The project is concerned mainly with (i) the development and adaptation of linguistic resources for the chosen languages, and (ii) the investigation and speciﬁcation of text structuring strategies em- ployed in those languages for the given type of texts. The linguistic resources are developed in the KPML environment [3], on the basis of the Penman system [2]. We would like to thank our colleagues from the Charles University, University of Brighton, Bulgarian Academy of Sci- ences, Russian Research Institute of Artiﬁcial Intelligence, and Elke Teich and John Bateman in particular, for their cooperation. We are also grateful to the reviewers of the abstract who provided useful comments which we tried to use to improve the presentation of our ideas. 1