SURGE: a Comprehensive Plug-in Syntactic Realization Component for Text Generation

this paper on the development and evolution of sucha component, the surge system. surge has been widely distributed in the generationcommunity and has been embedded into several complete systems. The goals of reusabilityand wide coverage have led to a large system and many of the issues faced duringthe development of the system are issues common to the development of large softwaresystems. From the linguistic side, they have also led to the definition of an input specificationlanguage of...