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In this document, we show how a constrained-based approach to lexical choice can overcome the problem of choosing lexical structures a priori and having to revise these judgements when more information is available. We focus on the treatment of linear precedence and on the determination of syntactic rules using a constraint logic programming approach.
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Saint-Dizier, P. (1992). A constraint logic programming treatment of syntactic choice in natural language generation. In: Dale, R., Hovy, E., Rösner, D., Stock, O. (eds) Aspects of Automated Natural Language Generation. IWNLG 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 587. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55399-1_9
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