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From: rda@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Robert Dale)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: systemic grammar and realization rules
Keywords: natural language, linguistics, Halliday's systemic theory.
Message-ID: <4170@scott.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 21 Feb 91 12:41:12 GMT
References: <2340@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk>
Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
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raza@cs.hw.ac.uk (Z. Raza Hussain) writes:

>... if this is so, then my original
>question becomes : how is it possible to get a functional description
>from examining syntax ?)

>i realise that this theory is developed from a non-computing point of
>view (sociological viewpoint of linguistics as originally observed by 
>Malanowski) and is difficult to implement.

Systemic Grammar has been widely used in Natural Language Generation
for a long time, the most prominent work being the Nigel grammar
developed at the Information Sciences Institute at the University of
Southern California, although there are other substantial
implementations around.  For parsing, you may want to look at more
recent work by Bob Kasper.  In particular, check out:

%t TechReport
%I ISI
%T Systemic Grammar and Functional Unification Grammar
and Representational Issues in Systemic Functional Grammar
%A Christian Matthiessen
%A Robert Kasper
%N RS-87-179
%M April
%Y 1987

%t InProceedings
%A R T Kasper
%Y 1988
%T An experimental parser for systemic grammars
%B COLING88
%p 309-312

%t InProceedings
%A Robert T Kasper
%Y 1989
%T Unification and Classification: An Experiment in Information-Based Parsing
%B International Workshop on Parsing Technologies
%I Carnegie Mellon University
%C Pittsburgh
%p 1-7
%M August

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