Incremental Generation by Incremental Parsing: Tactical Generation in Dynamic Syntax
Matthew Purver, Masayuki Otsuka · 2003
The paper shows how an incremental tactical generator can be constructed based on the incremental parsing frame-work described in Dynamic Syntax (DS)(Kempson et al., 2001), without adding a generator-specific vocabulary or intermediate levels of representation. The resulting generator is defined purely in terms of the parsing process, together with a notion of tree subsumption. This is shown to have various advantages in-cluding easy self-monitoring and psy-cholinguistic plausibility. A simple Pro-log implementation is described, to-gether with various possible improve-ments in efficiency. 1