How to Make Grammatical Choices in Test Generation.

Abstract

The problem of making purposefully controlled syntactic choices in text generation has not been given much attention in the past and there is no body of detailed and general solutions. This report briefly describes the problem and presents a solution to it by way of example. The tense expression of a clause iis generated in the Nigel grammar, a large systemic grammar for text generation. The discussion shows how the problem of controlling tense is addressed in the Nigel framework. So-called systems are used to specify what the syntactic choices are and a semantic process, a so-called chooser, is defined for each system to exercise purposeful control of the choice alternatives specified by the system. (Author)

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA139843

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  • C. M. I. M. Matthiesen

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