Systemic Text Generation as Problem Solving

by Terry Patten

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521350761
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	03/17/1988
Series:	Studies in Natural Language Processing
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.67(d)

Table of Contents

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.