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One of the many tasks in building a text generation system is to design the environment in which the lexicogrammar (i.e. lexis and grammar) works. In this chapter, I will use English lexicogrammar to infer aspects of the organization of other parts of a text generation system.1 The basic question is how the environment should be organized to support the lexicogrammar.
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Matthiessen, C. (1987). Notes on the Organization of the Environment of a Text Generation Grammar. In: Kempen, G. (eds) Natural Language Generation. NATO ASI Series, vol 135. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3645-4_17
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