Text-generation as a linguistic research task
Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, Sandra Annear Thompson, Paul Schachter · 1989
Text generation or the automatic production of text by computer has come into prominence as a research task in computer science and computational linguistics in the 1980s. In this dissertation I view text generation as a linguistic research task. In particular, I focus on what I have learned from the application of linguistic models in a text generation system and on the ways in which linguistics can contribute to work on text generation. After a survey of the field, I discuss the level of lexicogrammar. Next I consider the kind of semantic interface needed to control the lexicogrammatical resources in a purposeful way. Finally, I turn to the environment in which the lexicogrammar and its semantic interface operate.