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Abstract : |
As text generation systems get more sophisticated and capable of producing a wider syntactic and lexical range, the issue of how to choose among available grammatical options (preferably in a human-like way) becomes more pressing. Thus, devisers of text generation systems are frequently called upon to provide their own analyses of the discourse function of various kinds of alternations. In this paper, I describe a proposed research tool which is designed to help a researcher explore and analyze a natural-language "target text " in order to determine the contextual factors that predict the choice of one or another lexical item or grammati-cal feature. The project described in this paper is, |
