... `text':¹

We need to emphasize here that the biographical texts we use as examples reflect the information that was held at some particular time within an experimental information system: there is absolutely no claim of historical or factual accuracy!

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... application.²

Importantly, this is a generalization: there will be differences and these differences can also be utilized; cf. the related concepts of sublanguage [Kittredge and Lehrberger: 1982] and register [Halliday: 1978].

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... meaning:³

The first moves in the analysis context to allow what we term textual meanings to systematically influence lexicogrammatical realizations are to be found in work based on Discourse Representation Theory (cf. [Kamp and Reyle: 1993]) and more recent work on `discourse grammars' (e.g., [Grover, Brew, Manandhar and Moens: 1994,Gardent: 1997,Webber, Knott, Stone and Joshi: 1999]).

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... above.⁴

Other approaches are possible: for example, a rather different perspective has been attempted in terms of traditional stylistics by DiMarco and Hirst [DiMarco and Hirst: 1993]; here style is considered as a goal in its own right, rather than in service of particular communicative goals. One attempt at incorporating such stylistic control in an existing text generator is described in Green and DiMarco [Green and DiMarco: 1996].

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... `pseudo-text'⁵

This adapts an example from Halliday [Halliday: 1978, p134].

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... sequence.⁶

Note that the descriptions given at the leaves of this rhetorical structure offer another example of a possible rephrasing that a generation system might want to produce from the same input as used for the original example texts above.

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...GagnonLapalme96-enlgw.⁷

Discourse representation theory has also been used for generation in projects such as WISBER [Horacek: 1990] and LILOG [Novak: 1991] although with limited integration.

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