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  <Title>SYSTEM DEMONSTRATION FLAUBERT: AN USER FRIENDLY SYSTEM FOR MULTILINGUAL TEXT GENERATION FREDI~RIC MEUNIER</Title>
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SYSTEM DEMONSTRATION
FLAUBERT: AN USER FRIENDLY SYSTEM FOR MULTILINGUAL TEXT
GENERATION
FREDI~RIC MEUNIER
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    <Paragraph position="0"> FLAUBERT is an engine for text generation. Its first applications has been for instructional texts, both in French and in English, in software and aeronautics domains. It is an implementation of G-TAG, a - formalism for generation inspired from TAG (\[Danlos &amp; Meunier 96\], \[Meunier 97\]). This formalism is a lexicalized text generation system (\[Danl0s 98a\], \[Danlos 98b\]).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> All linguistic data are outside of the engine code program. They are maintained directly by linguists under a Simple text editor. The syntactic TAG grammar we use for French is that-written by (\[Abeill6 91\]). Moreover, the French families of elementary trees are automatically generated thanks to the hierarchical representation of LTAGS (\[Candito 96\]). The TAG grammar we use for English is home made.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> This engine runs on Sun Solaris with 32 M* RAM (generator and interface), and is written in Ada 95 (generator) and C (interface). It is compiled by the GNU compilers, and uses GNU Scripts (bash, perl, sed, awk).</Paragraph>
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2 Description
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    <Paragraph position="0"> AS in DRAFTER (\[Paris et al. 95\]), FLAUBERT takes as input a conceptual representation provided by the user who fills a questionnaire through an interface that proposes cascading menus based on a domain model (see below). The emphasis is put on linguistic issues such as lexical choices (including choices of connectives), parallelism issues, stylistic issues (e.g. length and content of clauses and sentences), etc.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> FLAUBERT uses three databases: 0 A domain model describing an ontology of concepts in a typed feature formalism. In a standard way, the concepts include objects, actions, states and relations between them; * A set of lexical data bases associated withconcepts; the lexical database for a given concept describes its semantico-lexical realizations (lexical heads + argument structures) accompanied with tests of applicability for right semantics and well formdness; * A TAG grammar whose syntactic informations allow a derived tree to be computed from a derivation tree (see the data flow below).</Paragraph>
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