An Overview of SURGE: a Reusable Comprehensive Syntactic Realization Component

Abstract

This paper describes surge, a syntactic realization front-end for natural language generation systems. By gradually integrating complementary aspects of various linguistic theories within the computational framework of functional unification, surge has evolved to be one of the most comprehensive grammars of English for language generation available today. It has been successfully re-used in a variety of generators, with very different architectures and application domains.