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Text Generation Systems
The following are programs based on SFL which generate text from
semantic input.
| Name |
Author |
Description |
| KPML |
John Bateman,
Others |
Description: KPML is a Systemic Text Generation system
and grammar
development environment. It is an extension on the Penman text
generation
syste, developed at Information Sciences Institute (ISI) in Los Angeles
(principal architects Bill Mann and Christian Matthiessen). John
Bateman
took over the system in the early 90s, and extended it to be
multilingual,
and has vastely improved the grammar editing environment. Grammars have
been developed for German (Elke Teich, Brigite Brote, ...), Dutch,
etc.
KPML offers sentence generation from a semantic input (SPLs).
Graphing
of system networks, systemic structures, etc. Can handle multiple
grammars
simultaneously.
Platform: Unix, Linux, Windows.
Cost: Free.
Web Page: http://purl.org/net/kpml
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| WAG |
Mick O'Donnell |
Description: WAG (Workbench for Analysis and
Generation) is
a system for generating sentences from a semantic specification. WAG
was
a re-engineering of the Penman system, improving some of the problems
in
that system (for instance, declarative inter-stratal mapping). WAG
includes
its own knowledge representation engine, similar to LOOM, that used in
Penman, but more systemic-based.
WAG has been used for grammars in English, Spanish,
Italian and
Greek, although only on a small scale (however, KPML offers much more
in
regards to multilingual processing). WAG forms the core of the ILEX
system, both for KR and sentence generation. It was also originally the
core of the M-Piro
system,
until replaced by a re-implementation of WAG into Java by Jo Calder.
WAG
is not currently maintained for release, but may be released in the
future,
when the authore gets some free time.
Availability: Awaiting update...
Platform: Unix, Linux, Windows.
Web Page: http://www.wagsoft.com/wag.html
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| Multex
2.0 |
Systemic Meaning Modelling Group |
Description: Multex is a high-performance multilingual
and multimodal
text planner. Multex 2.0 is an integrated environment for testing out
text
planning process, and for visually developing grammar. Many new
exciting
features have been implemented in this new version. Platform:
Macintosh.
Availability: ??
Web Page: http://minerva.ling.mq.edu.au/research/Multex/Doc/DomainModel/DomainModelDoc.htm |
| Communal |
Robin Fawcett,
Gordon Tucker,
Others |
Description:The Computational Linguistics Unit,
Cardiff University
have developed a sentence generation system called Communal. It
doesn't generate from semantic input, but rather requires the user to
traverse
the system network, choosing a feature at each point. Large
semantic-oriented
network, called Genesys
For More Information: fawcett@cardiff.ac.uk, tuckerg@cardiff.ac.uk
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| FUF |
Michael Elhadad |
Description: FUF is a generalised unification tool.
For text
generation, it uses the SURGE grammar (Systemic Unification Realization
Grammar of English), which is a mixture of Halliday and HPSG.
Platform: ??
Availability: ??
Web Page: http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/research/projects/surge/index.htm |
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