Partial synthesis of sentences by coroutining
GÉRARD MILHAUD, Robert Pasero, Paul Sabatier · 1992
We show how the two main characteristics of the ILLICO natural language interface --- guided composition mode by partial synthesis, and the modularity of the encoding of linguistic knowledge specifying the lexical, syntactic, semantic and conceptual levels of well-formedness --- have lead us to develop an approach and a system in which all the constraints on the different levels of well-formedness are coroutined when the system analyzes a given sentence or synthesizes a partial one. We describe the principle of the general coroutining process and the associated Prolog program.