Systemic Text Generation

ISBN-13: 9780521350761 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 228 str.

Terry Patten

Opis

An exploration of a new approach to text generation that interprets systemic grammar as a computational representation. Patten demonstrates that systemic grammar can be easily and automatically translated into current AI-knowledge representations and efficiently processed by the same knowledge-based techniques currently exploited by expert systems. Thus, the fundamental methodological problem of interfacing specialized computational representations with equally specialized linguisticrepresentations can be resolved. The study provides a detailed discussion of the formal model proposed and of a substantial implementation including a relatively large systemic grammar. It represents a fundamental and productive contribution to the literature of text generation.

Spis treści

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Background I: AI problem solving; 3. Background II: systemic grammar; 4. The conflation; 5. The formal model; 6. The implementation; 7. Related work in text generation; 8. Conclusions; Appendix A: OPS5 tutorial; Appendix B: sample texts; Appendix C: excerpts from the grammar; Notes; Bibliography; Index.