Generating English discourse from semantic networks

Abstract

A system is described for generating English senterraces from a form of semantic ~e{s ia rrhid~ #~e nodes are ~'ord-sense mea~dngs a~d the paths are primarily deep case relations. The grammar ~sed by {he system is ia the form of a nef~ork that imposes an ordering on a set of syntactic transfnrmations {ha{ are expressed as t J S P flmctio~ts. The generation algorithm ~ses the information in the semantic net,~ork to select appropri~, ate genera{bin paths through the grammar.