XML-based Natural Language Generation

Assignment 5: Surface Realization

Copy the sample text specification liter.textspec.xml into your XMLGen/data directory.

Write an XSLT stylesheet liter.realize.xslt which will perform surace realization.
- Copy this example liter.realize.xslt into XMLGen/xslt and complete it
The stylesheet should:
- accept as input a text specification in the format of liter.textspec.xml
- for each phrase specification, produce an English phrase whose head is the <head> word
- output Java Speech Markup Language containing the phrases
Test your stylesheet using Ant:
- Put your stylesheet liter.realize.xslt in XMLGen/xslt
- Run "ant realization"
Send me the following file
- Your stylesheet liter.realize.xslt

Graham Wilcock

Last modified: Wed Jul 23 12:47:38 EEST 2003