System Demonstration Overview of GBGEN.
Thierry Etchegoyhen, Thomas Wehrle · 1998
This paper presents an overview of the GBGen system, a sentence realizer currently developped for French. The system is strictly deterministic, i.e. it maps semantic structures to surface forms without either simulating parallelism or using backtracking, and the performances are accordingly extremely satisfying. It is procedural, based on Government & Binding Theory (Chomsky 1981): several levels of syntactic representation are defined, on which configurational searches and transformations apply.