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  <Title>Ward, Nigel (to appear). A Connectionist Language Generator. Ablex. revised and extended version of A Flexil)le, Parallel Model of Natural Language Generation, Ph D. thems and Technical Report UCB</Title>
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5. Summary and Hopes
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    <Paragraph position="0"> To summarize the advantages of the prof)osal: Participatory profles are a representation mech~vnism that allows both precision and generalizationcapturing. Precision is important for being able to tel)resent accurately the information that people (:an get from langnage, and it will probably also he use ful for artificial intelligence systems in the near fu lure. Better generalization-capturing allows siml)ler amt better grammars. Tbis is important for linguis tics, and also for comtmtational linguistic, where the cash vahle will be inq)roved manageability and performance for natural language systems. One example is machine translation. If the parser/mMerstander arrives at a narrow enough eaqe profile for a participant, then it is lmssible to directly find the relewmt target language constructions t)y cornputmg in which regions the point lies. It shouhl thus he posslhle to eliminate the need for contraative knowledge relating the regions of the various constrnctions and words of the two languages.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Judging from my experience converting FIG to profiles, these advantages may be easy to achieve in practice. Of course, to conre u t) with a general theory of relational information will require a great deal more work, both on the mechanism and on the analysis of language.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> This f)ropc,sM is in some ways a logical continuation of Fillrrtore's (19681 research i)rogram. Fillmore wanted to capture linguistic generalizations in terms of meaning, not syntactic structures, hi Ward (forthcoming) I suggest that a processing model can dispense with surface syntax struetures also; doing without csse eliminates yet another type of interme diate structure typically interposed between thought aml hmguage, allowing an even more direct account of linguistic generalizations in terms of meaning.</Paragraph>
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