
Systemic Functional Grammar & Natural Language Generation
Elke Teich(Author)
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Published on 1. April 1999
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-304-70168-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book deals with the computational application of systemic functional grammar (SFG) for natural language generation. More particularly, it first describes the implementation of a fragment of the grammar of German in the computational framework of KOMET-PENMAN for multilingual generation. Second, it presents a specification of explicit well-formedness constraints on syntagmatic structure which are defined in the form of typed feature structures. It thus achieves a model of systemic functional grammar that unites both the stregths of systemics, such as stratification, functional diversification, the orientation to context etc., adn the kinds of syntactic generalizations that are typically found in modern, syntagmatically-focused computational grammars. Elke Teich worked as a researcher in the KOMET project for text generation at the German National Research Centre for Information Technology, Institute for Integrated Publication and Information Systems, Darmstadt from 1990 to 1996. She is now a Research Associate at the Institute for Applied Linguistics, Translating and Interpreting, University of the Saarland, Saarbrucken.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
575 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-304-70168-1 (9780304701681)
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Person
Elke Teich
Content
Notational conventions in text; theory and linguistic representation - systemic functional linguistics; computational application - grammar models in natural language generation; description - a systemic functional grammar of German for NL generation; computational representation - a proposal for dependency in systemic functional grammar.