Arguments for a Message Level in Natural Language Generation
David D. McDonald, Marie M. Vaughan · 1987
THIS PAPER PRESENTS AN ANALYSIS OF A FAMILY OF PARTICULAR ENGLISH CONSTRUCTIONS, ALL OF WHICH ROUGHLY EXPRESS `PURPOSE''. IN PARTICULAR WE LOOK AT THE PURPOSE CLAUSE, RATIONALE CLAUSE, AND INFINITIVAL RELATIVE CLAUSE. WE 1) SHOW THAT COUCHING THE ANALYSIS IN A COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK, SPECIFICALLY GENERATION, PROVIDES A MORE SATISFYING ACCOUNT THAN ANALYSES BASED STRICTLY ON DESCRIPTIVE LINGUISTICS, 2) DESCRIBE AN IMPLEMENTATION OF OUR ANALYSIS IN THE NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION SYSTEM MUMBLE-86, AND 3) DISCUSS HOW OUR ARCHITECTURE IMPROVES UPON THE TECHNIQUES USED BY OTHER GENERATION SYSTEMS FOR HANDLING THESE AND OTHER ADJUNCT CONSTRUCTIONS.