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Grammatical formalisms can be viewed as neutral with respect to comprehension or generation, or they can be investigated from the point of view of their suitability for comprehension or generation. Tree Adjoining Grammars (TAG) is a formalism that factors recursion and dependencies in a special way, leading to a kind of locality and the possibility of incremental generation. We will examine the relevance of these properties from the point of view of sentence generation.
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Joshi, A.K. (1987). The Relevance of Tree Adjoining Grammar to Generation. In: Kempen, G. (eds) Natural Language Generation. NATO ASI Series, vol 135. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3645-4_16
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