Two Approaches to Semantic Interfaces in Text Generation
Systemic Functional Linguistics, Part 2 - Volume 2 - Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen
Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen [+]
University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), Beijing
Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen is a Swedish-born linguist and a leading figure in the systemic functional linguistics (SFL) school, having authored or co-authored more than 160 books, refereed journal articles, and papers in refereed conference proceedings, with contributions to three television programs. He is currently Distinguished Professor in the Department of Linguistics at University of International Business and Economics,
Beijing, Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, in the School of Foreign Languages, Hunan University, Guest Professor at Beijing Science and Technology University, and Honorary Professor at the Australian National University. Before this, he was Chair Professor, Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and Professor in the Linguistics Department of Macquarie University. Professor Matthiessen has worked in areas as diverse as language typology, linguistics and computing, grammatical descriptions of various languages, grammar and discourse, healthcare communication studies, functional grammar for English-language teachers, text analysis and translation, multisemiotic studies, and the evolution of language. He has supervised over 40 research students.
Description
Chapter 4 deals with two semantic interfaces that are implemented in text generation systems using systemic-functional grammar, i.e, chooser and inquiry semantics, whose framework is discussed in Chapter 2 and situation-specific semantic systems. The former approaches from below with respect to lexicogrammar and the latter from above, from context. The chapter discusses each of these two complementary approaches to semantics and their relative merits in adopting these approaches in one generation system.