TITLE:         Planning Text in a System for Teaching English as a
               Second Language to Deaf Learners.
AUTHORS:       Lisa N. Michaud and Kathleen F. McCoy
COMMENTS:      In Proceedings of Integrating Artificial Intelligence and
               Assistive Technology, an AAAI '98 Workshop

In this paper we discuss an envisioned text planner for a
computer-assisted instruction tool for deaf learners of English.  We
describe the problem of deaf literacy and overview our system,
designed to act as a writing tutor that generates text to explain the
errors found in a user's written compositions.  These explanations
are created according to a response anatomy that divides the
planning task into a bottom-up phase for grouping and ordering
explanations and a top-down phase for building a hierarchical text
plan to create the explanatory text.  This is then followed by a
revision of the complete plan to place it in its greater context. At
all levels of planning, the explanation is personalized to the
individual learner's styles and knowledge in order to maximize the
learning experience.