KPML>Documentation

Guide to using KPML

These pages offer pointers to specific pieces of documentation concerning the KPML system and its use.

They are currently being extended. At present the information is sorted into background information, basic beginners' information, day-to-day usage, and advanced topics. If there is a topic that you would like to see added, let me know.

Background	Book chapter describing how sentence generation works with a systemic-functional generator such as KPML (pdf).
Beginnings	Writing input specifications for generation: SPL First intro to writing grammars The grammar explorer: exploring a large grammar resource
Regular usage	The possible forms of an SPL specification The complete system online documentation (note that you may not have access to this WWW domain online) for version KPML1.0 [update is in the works] is also available as an extensive hypertext document in pdf [7Mb] and compressed pdf [2Mb]. A hardcopy version is also availble as a compressed postscript version [1.83Mb]. Although much has changed since this documentation, the basic information about the system is still correct. The linguistic ontology assumed
Advanced topics	The Agreement Realization Operator The Knowledge Representation Languages Running the blackbox standalone generator An extensive draft [pdf, ps] of the documentation for controlling textual semantics in the Nigel grammar of English (ms, 1992: being updated)

John Bateman, December 2004