Contents

• • • Abstract
    • Declaration
    • Acknowledgements
• Contents
  • Introduction
    • Aims of the thesis
      • Problems in machine translation
      • Solutions from Systemic Functional Grammar
    • Structure of the thesis
• Background survey
  • Systemic Functional Grammar
    • Origins of SFG
    • Some basic concepts of mainstream SFG
      • System networks
      • Realization
      • Metafunctions
      • Conflation
    • Textual coherence and cohesion
  • Text generation
    • Generation with SFG
      • Parsing-oriented versus generation-oriented grammars
      • Structure-driven versus grammar-driven generation algorithms
    • The USC Nigel/Penman system
      • The Nigel grammar
      • The chooser/inquiry interface
      • Upper Model and SPL
      • Rhetorical Structure Theory
    • The Cardiff COMMUNAL system
      • The Genesys grammar
      • Felicity conditions
      • Dialogue Model and other components
  • Multilingual generation
    • The importance of multilingual generation
    • The Sydney multilingual SFG project
      • Grammar sharing
      • Multilingual system networks
      • Multilingual realization rules
    • The Darmstadt KOMET system
      • Grammatical gender agreement
      • Situated texts and multilingual textuality
  • Machine translation
    • Mainstream MT
      • Commercial development in Japan
      • Differences between import and export translation
    • Research directions in MT
      • MT for monolinguals: the Alvey project
      • MT without a source text
    • Multilingual MT versus multilingual generation
    • A systemic functional approach to export translation
• The demonstration prototype
  • The Mini-grammar
    • The grammar network
    • The realization rules
  • The Prolog implementation
    • Representation of the grammar network
    • Representation of the realization rules
    • Grammar network traversal procedures
    • Realization procedures
  • The Japanese interface
    • Design of the menus and feature summaries
    • Using the interface
    • Illustration of monolingual sentence revision
  • The multilingual version
    • Adding French and German
    • Illustration of multilingual sentence revision
• Evaluation
  • Evaluation of the demonstration prototype
    • Limitations of the implementation
    • An approach to knowledge-based post-editing
  • Evaluation of Systemic Functional Grammar
    • Strengths and weaknesses of SFG
    • Scope for constructive exchanges
      • Semantic head-driven generation
      • HPSG
      • Typed feature structures
• Bibliography
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