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  <Title>Inquiry Semantics: A Functional Semantics of Natural Language Grammar 1</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Text generation is the generation of language to conform to an a priori intention and plan to communicate.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The problem of text generation is naturally complex, requiring the 1previous title: Generating Text: Knowledge a Grammar Demands.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> This research was SUl~ported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research contract No, F49620-79-C-0181. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the author and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies or endorsements, either expressed or implied, of Ihe Air Force Office of Scientific Research of the U.S Government.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> active coordination of many kinds of knowledge having independent origins and character. A significant part of this complexity is in grammatical knowledge. It is important for the grammar of a text generator to have its own integrity, yet without being operationally autonomous. 2 The methods of generating text presented here grew out of a concern to maintain the integrity and definitional independence of particular existing fragments of grammar. These methods employ the grammar in ways which do not make any strong assumptions about the nongrammatical kinds of knowledge in the text generator. They control the use of the grammar in generation.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> We-first describe the methods, showing how they make grammatical generation possible. Then we show how they factor the problem of text generation and clarify the role of knowledge representations. Finally we characterize inquiry semantics and the notion of meaning.</Paragraph>
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