An overview of the Nigel text generation grammar

  • Authors:
  • William C. Mann

  • Affiliations:
  • USC/Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, CA

  • Venue:
  • ACL '83 Proceedings of the 21st annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 1983

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Abstract

Research on the text generation task has led to creation of a large systemic grammar of English, Nigel, which is embedded in a computer program. The grammar and the systemic framework have been extended by addition of a semantic stratum. The grammar generates sentences and other units under several kinds of experimental control.This paper describes augmentations of various precedents in the systemic framework. The emphasis is on developments which control the text to fulfill a purpose, and on characteristics which make Nigel relatively easy to embed in a larger experimental program.