Design and implementation of a tactical generator for Turkish, a free constituent order language

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1996
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Bilkent University
Abstract

This thesis describes a tactical generator for Turkish, a free constituent order language, in which the order of the constituents may change according to the information structure of the sentences to be generated. In the absence of any information regarding the information structure of a sentence (i.e., topic, focus, background, etc.), the constituents of the sentence obey a default order, but the order is almost freely changeable, depending on the constraints of the text flow or discourse. We have used a recursively structured finite state machine for handling the changes in constituent order, implemented as a right-linear grammar backbone. Our implementation environment is the GenKit system, developed at Carnegie Mellon University-Center for Machine Translation. Morphological realization has been implemented using an external morphological analysis/generation component which performs concrete morpheme selection and handles morphographemic processes.

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Ankara : Department of Computer Engineering and Information Science and Faculty of Engineering and Science, Bilkent University, 1996.
Thesis (Master's) -- Bilkent University, 1996.
Includes bibliographical refences.
Keywords
Natural Language Generation, Free Constituent Order Langiuige, Realization, Grammar Theory
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