Structure of rest of course - I Practical tactical generation –writing and testing simple grammars: the importance of choice –issues of semantics for text generation –other approaches to tactical generation (unification-based and tree-adjoining grammars) –algorithms

Structure of rest of course - II Strategic text generation –approaches to text structure for text generation (Rhetorical Structure Theory) –goal-based planning –relating text plans to sentence plans

Structure of rest of course - III Text and discourse semantics –what makes a text into a text (rather than a collection of sentences)? –placing discourse semantics within text generation –using text generation as a way of testing theories of text

Structure of rest of course - IV Applications of text generation –report generation –language and grammar teaching –conversational systems –reference grammars

Structure of rest of course - V Mini-project –writing a generation grammar for some fragment of a language –producing a set of example semantics for an existing grammar –reviewing and comparing approaches to natural language generation –analysing some texts for some discourse property and checking this via generation –...