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This paper describes how a fully new linguistic component, a Dutch grammar fragment, has been added to an existing multilingual systemic generation system. The system has an architecture based on functional typology which allows the cumulative addition of other languages without revising the overall system and with much re-use of resources across languages. We have indeed found that despite the possible expectation that divergences in linguistic resources would occur early in the systemic classification and that sharing would therefore be minimal, this is not the case. The functional organization of the systemic network does appear to offer considerable re-use of resources.
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Degand, L. (1996). A Dutch component for a multilingual systemic text generation system. In: Adorni, G., Zock, M. (eds) Trends in Natural Language Generation An Artificial Intelligence Perspective. EWNLG 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1036. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60800-1_39
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