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    Language generation has traditionally received less attention from computational linguists than language understanding

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    • 1.If the content to be verbalized is available in an unambiguous formal representation, standard output templates can often be used for generation in sufficiently narrow domains
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    • 2.Transduction from an explicit unambiguous internal semantic representation to a word sequence is much less problematic than reconstruction of an explicit semantic representation from an ambiguous word sequence
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    • 1.Chomsky's generative grammar tradition placed language production at the theoretical center of linguistics, treating competence as fundamentally generative.
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    • 2.Computational implementations of transformational-generative grammar (e.g., Aspects-era parsers) were motivated by and modeled on the speaker's generative capacity, not the hearer's.
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    • 3.The historical dominance of generative frameworks in formal linguistics directly shaped early computational linguistics, making generation the explanatory target, not a neglected problem.
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    • 1.Gricean pragmatics, centered on speaker meaning and cooperative maxims, frames linguistic behavior primarily from the generator's intentional perspective.
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    • 2.Computational systems for natural language generation that model Gricean maxims (e.g., Dale & Reiter's work on referring expression generation) represent a sustained and theoretically sophisticated research tradition.
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    • 3.A research tradition producing principled accounts of referring expression generation, discourse planning, and sentence aggregation cannot be accurately characterized as having received 'less attention'.
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    Despite this inverse relationship, language generation has traditionally received less attention from computational linguists than language understanding, because if the content to be verbalized is available in an unambiguous, formal representation, standard output templates can often be used for generation, at least in sufficiently narrow domains. Even for unrestricted domains, the transduction from an explicit, unambiguous internal semantic representation to a word sequence is much less proble
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