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title: "Preliminary Report On A Program For Generating Natural Langugage"
authors:
  - "D. McDonald"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/64"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/0064.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1975
pages: "401-404"
track: "Natural Language Understanding"
keywords:
---

# Preliminary Report On A Program For Generating Natural Langugage

D. McDonald

*Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 401-404.

## 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.