Contents

• Contents
• 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 The aims of the RAGS Architecture
  • 1.2 The form of the model
  • 1.3 Types in the Data Model
  • 1.4 Operations in the Data Model
  • 1.5 Access to other Knowledge Sources/Representations
    • 1.5.1 User Models
    • 1.5.2 Goals and Plans
    • 1.5.3 Discourse Models
    • 1.5.4 Domain Knowledge Base
    • 1.5.5 Lexicon and Grammar
    • 1.5.6 Ontologies and Upper Models
  • 1.6 The Pipeline
• 2 Parameterisation
• 3 The form of the Interface Definitions
• 4 Abstract and Concrete Rhetorical Representation Datatype Specification
  • 4.1 Motivation
  • 4.2 Types and operations
    • 4.2.1 Abstract type definitions
  • 4.3 An example instantiation of the interface
    • 4.3.1 Instantiation of rhetorical relations
    • 4.3.2 Transformations from AbsRhetReps to RhetReps
  • 4.4 Concrete syntax
  • 4.5 Sample translations of concrete syntax
• 5 Abstract Document Representation Datatype Specification
  • 5.1 Motivation
  • 5.2 Types and operations
    • 5.2.1 Abstract type definitions
  • 5.3 Example instantiation of the interface
  • 5.4 Concrete syntax
  • 5.5 Sample translation of concrete syntax
• 6 Concrete Semantic Representation Datatype Specification
  • 6.1 Motivation
  • 6.2 Types and Operations
    • 6.2.1 Abstract type definitions
  • 6.3 Example instantiations of the interface
  • 6.4 Concrete syntax
    • 6.4.1 Definition
    • 6.4.2 Example
  • 6.5 Sample translations of the concrete syntax
    • 6.5.1 Definition
    • 6.5.2 Example
  • 6.6 Justification
• 7 Abstract Syntactic Representation Datatype Specification
  • 7.1 Motivation
  • 7.2 Types and Operations
    • 7.2.1 Abstract type definition
  • 7.3 Example instantiations of the interface
    • 7.3.1 GB
    • 7.3.2 LFG
    • 7.3.3 HPSG4
    • 7.3.4 Categorial grammar
    • 7.3.5 Text Structure
    • 7.3.6 MTT
  • 7.4 Concrete syntax
    • 7.4.1 Definition
    • 7.4.2 Example
  • 7.5 Sample translation of concrete syntax
    • 7.5.1 Definition
    • 7.5.2 Example
  • 7.6 Justification
    • 7.6.1 Intraclausal sentence planning
    • 7.6.2 Grammar-independent sentence planning
    • 7.6.3 Expressibility
    • 7.6.4 Multilingual generation
    • 7.6.5 Interfacing to realizers based on extant theories
    • 7.6.6 Theories and systems not covered
    • 7.6.7 A final issue
• 8 Mixed Representations
• 9 Main Unresolved Issues
  • 9.1 Do we need Conceptual Representations?
  • 9.2 What is Abstract Semantic Representation?
  • 9.3 How/whether to achieve both Multilinguality and Expressibility?
• 10 Acknowledgements and References
• References