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title: "Language Generation: The Linguistics Component"
authors:
  - "David D. McDonald"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/29"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/0029.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1977
pages: "142--1"
track: "Natural Language"
keywords:
---

# Language Generation: The Linguistics Component

David D. McDonald

*Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 142--1.

## Abstract

Speaking is the result of two processes: first, deciding what to Sly, and then, determining how that can be said using a natural language, in this case English. The second is a linguistic process, which begins with intentional messages formed by the first process, adds audience a.nd discourse Information, and produces fluent, sltuationally appropriate English utterances as output. This note reports on a theory and program developed for that process, in particular, an English generation grammar, procedural lexicon, and translation process have been designed and implemented as the program hAUhABLE, which has been tested by replicating several existing programs Improving their capabilities. This work was initially presented In [ll It has since been completed and is described in detail In [2l