Subject: Re: [lojban] natural language generation

From: Björn Gohla <[email-masked]> (by way of Björn Gohla <[email-masked]>)
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:37:40 +0100

this is what the input to kpml looks like, using a functional grammar it then
puts out something quite appropriate in the desired language. i may be wrong,
but the presented logical form to me seems close to a lojban syntax tree. i
am going to try to find out about the specs of these logical forms, if that
is of any relevance to our problem.

(EXAMPLE

:NAME 3-D-TIME2
:GENERATEDFORM "1899 berief Ernst Ludwig ihn nach der
: Kuenstlerkolonie." TARGETFORM "1899 berief ihn (der Grossherzog)
: Ernst Ludwig in die

Kuenstlerkolonie nach Darmstadt."

:LOGICALFORM

(DA / DIRECTED-ACTION :TENSE PAST :LEX BERUFEN-3P-SG-PAST

:SPATIAL-TEMPORAL-CIRCUMSTANCE-Q SPATIAL-TEMPORAL
:CIRCUMSTANTIAL-THEME-Q CONTEXT :RELATIONS

(TN / TEMPORAL-NONORDERING :RELATION-EXPLICITNESS-Q NONEXPLICIT

:RANGE

(T1 / YEAR :NAME EIGHTEEN-NINETYNINE))

:ACTOR

(P1 / PERSON :NAME ERNST-LUDWIG :IDENTIFIABILITY-Q IDENTIFIABLE

:MULTIPLICITY-Q UNITARY :SINGULARITY-Q SINGULAR
:CLASS-ASCRIPTION

(OB1 / OBJECT :LEX GROSSHERZOG-SG-NOM))

:ACTEE

(ER / PERSON :MEMBER-SET-Q
(SPEAKER ER)
NOTINCLUDED :MULTIPLICITY-Q UNITARY :EMPTY-NUMBER-Q EMPTY

:IDENTIFIABILITY-Q IDENTIFIABLE :GENDER-Q MALE)
:
:DESTINATION

(TD / THREE-D-LOCATION :LEX KUENSTLERKOLONIE-SG-ACC

:IDENTIFIABILITY-Q IDENTIFIABLE :MULTIPLICITY-Q UNITARY
:SINGULARITY-Q NONSINGULAR :RELATIONS

(DE / DESTINATION :DIRECTED-RELATION-Q DIRECTION :RANGE
(OB2 / OBJECT :NAME DARMSTADT))))

:SET-NAME |prep-egs-1|

)

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pub 1024D/834F4976 2001-01-07 Björn Gohla (Wissenschaftler, Weltbürger) 
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