[mod.ai] followup on NL generation

rapaport@buffalo.CSNET ("William J. Rapaport") (09/22/86)

In article <MS.lb0q.0.hatfield.284.1@andrew.cmu.edu>
    lb0q@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Leslie Burkholder) writes:
>Has work been done on the problem of generating relatively idiomatic English
>from sentences written in a language for first-order predicate logic?
>Any pointers would be appreciated.
>
>Leslie Burkholder
>lb0q@andrew.cmu.edu


We do some work on NL generation from SNePS, which can easily be translated
into pred. logic.  See:

Shapiro, Stuart C. (1982), ``Generalized Augmented Transition Network
Grammars For Generation From Semantic Networks,'' American Journal of
Computational Linguistics 8:  12-25.


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