{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Preliminary Report On A Program For Generating Natural Langugage","authors":[{"name":"D. McDonald","slug":"d-mcdonald","given":"D.","family":"McDonald","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"A pro&ram framework has been designed in which the linguistic facts and heuristics necessary for generating fluent natural langua&e can be encoded. The lin&uistic data is represented in annoteted procedures and data structures which are designed to make En&lish translations of already formulated messa&es given in a primary pro&ram's internal representation. The messa&es must include the program's intentions in saying them, in order to adequately specify the &rammatical operations required for a translation. The pertinant questions in this research have been: what structure does natural langua&e have that allows it to encode mutifaceted messages; and how must that structure be taken into account in the design of a &eneration facility for a computer prosram. This paper describes the control and data structures of the design and and their motivation. It is a condensation of my Master's Thesis <1>, to which the reader is refered for further information. Work is presently underwey on implementin& the desi&n in LISP end developing 1 &rammer for use in one or more of the domeins &iven below.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/64","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/0064.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/64.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/bibtex/64","volume":{"slug":"1975","title":"Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1975","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/","year":1975,"location":"Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR","dates":"","editors":"Patrick Winston and Carl Hewitt","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Natural Language Understanding","track":"Natural Language Understanding","number":64,"pages":{"first":401,"last":404},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}