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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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3. Related Work
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Although the synthesis is novel, many of the major components of the proposal have been previously proposed, if in somewhat different guises and for different purposes For exaanple, Cruse (1973) and Delaneey (1984) studied the components of various meeming relations, Labov (1973) and Miikkutainen and Dyer (1991) pioneered the use of vector spaces for describing meaning, Hopper and Thomp son (1980) showed how to relate grammatical reflexes to lists of scalar-valued paxameters (features), Ilinton (1981) noted the possibility of using a 'distributed representation of roles', Tsujii and Yamanashi (1985) viewed cases in terms of prototypes and their exten sions, Fukuda et al (1986) and Pederson (1991) introduced the spatial metaphor for meaning relations, and Dowty (199t) explained how to relate grmnmatica\[ relations to prntotype structured clusters of meaning relations.</Paragraph>
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