In: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-89), Detroit, Michigan USA, 1989, Volume 2, 1518 - 1523.
This paper presents a new model for the production of natural language. The novel idea is to combine incremental and bidirectional generation with parallelism.
The operational basis of our model is a distributed parallel system at every level of representation. Starting point of the production are segments of the conceptual level. These segments are related to active objects which have to map themselves across the linguistic levels (i.e. functional--semantic, syntactic and morphologic level) as fast and as independently as possible. Therefore the incremental behavior caused by a successive input is propagated on all levels.
Linguistic requirements detected by objects which are related to already produced segments at any level influence and restrict the decision of what to say next.
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