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    It is not the case that Language generation has traditionally received less attention from computational linguists than language understanding

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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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    • 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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