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"abstract": "The paper shows how it is possible, in the framemork of a gygtemle funetlonal g:r~mmat, (SFG) approach to the semantics of aatttral language, to generate an output with intonation that is motivated semantically and discoursally. Most of ~ wurk reported has already been *accuse, fully implem~4 in GF.N~SY$ (the very large generator of the COMMUNAL Pro~eet; see Appendix 1). A major feature is that it does am flint generate a syntax tree and words, and then impose intonational coatogm on them (as is a common aggroaeh in modelling intonation); rather, it generates the various intonational feamrta diteetJy, as it is generating richly labe.llad m:rucratea (as are typical in SFG), and the associated items. ~ claim is not that the model p~ he,\u00a2 solves all the problems of generating intonation, but that it points a way forward that makea natural links with semantics and ditu:ourse. A secondaJty perpoe~ of this paler is to demonstraW,, for one of many possible areas of NLO that could have been choc~n, that there is still much important work to be done in '~nt.e, mev geaeratkm'. I do this tn order to tefut\u00a9 the augge~On, ~easiOnally head at recent eel that the major wod\u00a2 io 'sentence generation' has already been done, and that the main (only'?) area of s/gnifleanee in NLG is ia ltighet level planning. In my expea'ieace the two are inteaxlependen% and we should expect significant developments at eveey level in the years to come.",
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"text": "The paper shows how it is possible, in the framemork of a gygtemle funetlonal g:r~mmat, (SFG) approach to the semantics of aatttral language, to generate an output with intonation that is motivated semantically and discoursally. Most of ~ wurk reported has already been *accuse, fully implem~4 in GF.N~SY$ (the very large generator of the COMMUNAL Pro~eet; see Appendix 1). A major feature is that it does am flint generate a syntax tree and words, and then impose intonational coatogm on them (as is a common aggroaeh in modelling intonation); rather, it generates the various intonational feamrta diteetJy, as it is generating richly labe.llad m:rucratea (as are typical in SFG), and the associated items. ~ claim is not that the model p~ he,\u00a2 solves all the problems of generating intonation, but that it points a way forward that makea natural links with semantics and ditu:ourse. A secondaJty perpoe~ of this paler is to demonstraW,, for one of many possible areas of NLO that could have been choc~n, that there is still much important work to be done in '~nt.e, mev geaeratkm'. I do this tn order to tefut\u00a9 the augge~On, ~easiOnally head at recent eel that the major wod\u00a2 io 'sentence generation' has already been done, and that the main (only'?) area of s/gnifleanee in NLG is ia ltighet level planning. In my expea'ieace the two are inteaxlependen% and we should expect significant developments at eveey level in the years to come.",
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"text": "The aspect of NoZural Language Generation (NLG) to be described here is the generation of spoken text that has intonation, where that intonation is motivated both semantically (i.e, in terms of the semantics -in a broad sense of the term to be clarified soon -of sentences) and dJscoursally (Le. in terms of vhat the discourse p!~..;.ng compotmnt specifies).\" Any specification of intonation requires, of course, to be integrated with an adapted version of a speech synthesizer (e.g. one that draws on one of the currently available systems that attempts -inevitably with Appendix 1 for a brief overview of the project). L As will be \u00a2l\u00a2ar from what follow the model presented hcte owes a great deal to two people in particular:. Michael Halliday and Pad Teach. Through them, I am well awate, there is a debt to many others, too numerous to mention, who have worked in the diffvgult field of intonation in F~glish. [ am grateful too for early encouragement in this area from Gillian Brown (whose work is drawn on also by Paul Teach), nod for the regular\u00b0 ongoing stimulus of many good explorations of ideas in this and other arco, s with my colteagmt Gordon Tucker. But none of there should bc blamed for the inevitable crudities, infelicities and no aoubt ca'mrs in the model described here; these are mine.",
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"text": "The approach is very different from that in MITalk (Allen 1986) , which is essentially a textto-speech system. So far as I am aware, the only generative model prior to ours that attempts to generate intonation that is motivated semanticaIly and discoursaIly is the impressive work of hard, Houghton, Pearson and their colleagues at Sussex (Houghton and hard 1987) and Houghton and Pearson 1988) . Its limitation is the very small size of its syntax, lexis, semantics and working domain. We see our work in the COMMUNAL Project as being to build on their important achievement. (But see Appendix 2 for what we do not attempt.)",
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"text": "The major components of the overall model that will b\u00a2 referred to below are as follows. We assume an Interactive system, rather than one that is merely monologue. We shall ignore here the components related to parsing, interpretation and inputting to the belief system and planner. The components relevant to generation are:",
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"text": "on knowledge of ... (scripts, schemas, etc) , introducing where appropriate sub-units such as transactions (see below) and more detailed plans, using ... 4, the local discourse grammar, which is modelled as a 'systemic flowchart' (i.e. a flowchart containing many small system networks at the choice points, and which generates exchanges and their structure), 5. the lexlcogrammar, i.e. the sentence generator, consisting of: a. the system networks of semantic features for a wide variety of types of mea-;-g related to situations and realized in the clause, including theme and information structure as well as transitivity, mood, negativity, modallty, affeetive meaning and logical relationships, and equivalent system networks for thiage and qualities, and b. the realization rules which turn the selection expressions of features that are the output from passes through the system networks into syntactic structures with Items (grammatical and lexical) and markers of punctuaUou or intonation as their term;hal nodes.",
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"text": "Let as imagine that Ivy (the 'person' of whose ufind GENESYS models a part) is about to generate a sentence, Let us suppose that she is being consulted by the Personnel Officer of a large institution, who draws regularly on her specialist knowledge and advice, and that he has just asked her Wghere does Peter Piper live?\". (We shall come later to how intonation is represented.)",
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"text": "Like most human users of language, Ivy makes reasonable assumptions about (loosely, she 'knows') where she is in any current transaction (e.g. at the start, in the middle or at the end), and where she is in the current exchange. This affects the pitch level of what she says. She needs to choose a tone (the change in pitch marked by a stepping or a slide on the tonic syllable) which will express the MOOD of the final matrix clause of her sentence. ('Matrix' here means 'at the top layer of structure'.) She nee& to locate that tone on an item which will be thereby marked as new Information. She needs to decide if it is to be presented simply as 'neW, or as 'contrastively new' (in the terms used here). And she needs to deride on the Information status of any chunks of information that are to be presented as separate from the main Information ear of the clause. (The information that guides these choices comes from various aspects of the higher belief system, which there is unfortunately no space to discuss here.)",
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"text": "As we shaft see, these various components of the semantic level of intonation account, in a different way from the usual approach in British intonation studies, for Halliday% well-known triad of TONE, TONALITY and TONICITY.",
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"text": "While it is perfectly possible m talk about the contrasts in intonational form to which these three rder as 'systems', I suggest that it is more insightful to take, as the level of contrasts to be modelIed in system networks, the meanings that lie behind (or, ia the SFG metaphor, above them). These semantic features are then realized in the purely intonational contrasts of TONE, TONICITY and TONA.LITY.",
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"text": "The accounts of the various aspects of intonation in what follows will inevitably be introductory, and may to the specialist appear simplistic. A somewhat fuller treatment is given in Teach and Fawcett 1988 , and a very fur treatment is given in Tenth 1987, which includes summaries of relevant work by other intonation spe\u00a2islists.",
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"text": "(I omit here, for reasons of space, a specification of how one might model the way in which the position in a transaction and an exchange affects intonation.)",
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"text": "Let us assume, then, that Ivy is preparing a response to the Personnel Officer's question, using the information that, while Mr Peter Piper's address is currently 11 Romilly Crescent, Canton, Cardiff, he is moving from there after one month. In discourse planni.g terms, she chooses that her move will be a 'support' for a 'solicit information', gad that the act at the head of the move is a 'give new content ) (see Fawcett, van der Mije and van Wissen 1988) . As wc shall see, these choices pro. select in the MOOD network of the lexieegrammar the features [information] and [giver] . But first there is a more basic system to consider.",
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"text": "Thus means that, for any 'situation' ( roughly = 'proposition') that you are generating, you must make choices in all three of the systems named. (Notice, then, that 'parallelism' lies at the heart of the grammar.) Here we shall be concerned only with the MODE system. (It is from CONGR-UENCE SIT that the main part of the network is entered, to generate configurations of participant roles, such as Agent and Affected, and choices in MOOD, such as 'information seeker', and very many others.) The MODE system is very simple:",
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"text": "This means: 'In the MODE system, you must choose between generating a spoken output (for which under random generation there is a 70% probability) and generating a written output (which carries a 30% probability). Clearly, sinc~",
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"text": "Ivy is in a spoken interaction, she will be strongly disposed to select [spoken] . but in principle she need not We shall not discuss here the interesting reasons for and ~in~t introducing this system to the lexi\u00a2o-grammar itself, except to point to two 91~,niEcant advantages that it brings. Nor, unfortunately, is there space to discuss the roles of the probabilities and the ways in which they are assigned (sometimes simply a guess at the overall pattern for central types of text; somet;mes based on textual studies).",
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"text": "(The ne,~ few lines presuppose some familiarity with systemic grammars; for those without this knowledge it may be advisable to re-read this section after seeing the working of the examples.) What is the role of this system? Fh'st, it enables the grammat-builder to refer, at any point on this initial pass through the system network, to whichOver feature in this system has been chosen as an entry condition to a later system. In other words, where there is greater richness of choice in me aning in the spoken mode (as is typically the case with m~nings real|Ted in intonation, as gain.st those reAI;~,~d in punctuation), we can ensure that those systems are only entered when the feature [spoken] has been chosen. We shall shortly see the great value of this. Second, the 'MODE' system enables us to refer, at any point in a realization rule, on this or any subsequent pass through the network, to this feature as a conditional feature for the realization of some othex feature, In other words, we can ensure that if [spoken] has been chosen the realization will take the form of intonation, and if [wrkten] has been chosen it is expressed in punctuation. Both of these faclh'fies contribute greatly to the elegant operation of the lexieogramm~tr as a whole, both in me~nin~ r\u00a291h'?d ill intonation and in many other ways.",
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"text": "The unmarked choice in the 'CONGRUENCE SIT' system is, unsurpri~ngly, [congruent_sill. This is the choice that opens up the whole array of me~-;,~gs a.~sociated with realization in a clause, and many parallel systems follow. Among these is the MOOD network. This is a fairly large and complex network of meanings, and these are re~l;-ed partly in syntax, partly in items (such as \"please'), and partly in tone (= variation in pitch). The network is too large and complex to present here, but we shall trace a route through it that shows why it is central to an understan,4;-g of intonation. The first options in the current GENESYS network are shown below:",
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"text": "This may seem a surpr/~gly complex rule to those in NIP used to working with minigrammars. But this is typical of the working level of complexity in a natural language, and those who ate used to working with the problems of building broad coverage grammars will appreciate that this is not a particularly complex rule. In the case of our example the effect is to give to Ivy's output a final intonation unit boundary.",
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"text": "We come next to an example of the value of being able to use of the feature [spoken] as an entry condition to a system. This is necessary because the MOOD network also builds in variables in 'key' (in the sense of HaRiday 1970); i.e. finer choices w/t h;. the MOOD options. These correspond to what Tench treats separately as variations in attitude. While accepting the 'view that these more delicate choices can be seen as serving a separate ftmction from the function of the basic tone, the fact is that in any systemic computational implementation the way in which they enter the choice systom is simply us more delicate choices that are directly dependent on the broad choice of meaning realized in the broad tone. The range of such delicate variations appears to be potentially different for the various meani,o~ (see further below). In the systems given below, note ~ high probability of choosing [assertive] followed by [neutral] .",
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"text": "Other sources of intonation occur in specialist mini-grammars such as those for dates and addresses. These can be quite complex, and may insert several tonics, each with an appropriate tone. Our worked example illustrates one such case: note the Tone 2 on \"Crescent\". Yet other types will be included in the next version of GENESY$, including (1) Adjuncts (which may be filled by clauses or groups) that are placed after the nuclear tonic of a clause and which carry 'supplementary information', and (2) 'nonrestrictive relative clauses' (i.e. ones that carry, once again, 'supplementary information'),",
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