<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<Paper uid="E89-1018">
  <Title>cation. A progress report.&amp;quot; in: Ross Steele / Terry Threadgold (Eds.): Language</Title>
  <Section position="6" start_page="0" end_page="0" type="concl">
    <SectionTitle>
4 Conclusion and directions
</SectionTitle>
    <Paragraph position="0"> for future work We propose a method for the description of knowledge about collocations in the dictionary of a multilingual generation system. Advantages for text generation result from the application of MTT's lexical functions and the formulation of the heuristic discussed above.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> In the generation literature, the generation of collocations is regarded as a problem (cf. \[MATTHIESSEN 1988\]). The only system we know of, in which attempts have been made to bring it to a solution, is DIO-GENES, a knowledge based generation system under development at Carnegie Mellon University 16. Our approach differs from NIRENBURG'S in that it introduces the distinction between basis and collocate. This leads to differences in the lexicalization strategy: within DIOGENES, heads are lexicalized before modifiers, irrespective of word classes, cf. \[NIRENBURG/NIRENBUI~G 1988\].; we have come up with data that seems to favour the distinction between basis and collocate.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Further contrastive descriptive work will be the basis for a prototypical implementation within Polygloss. With respect to lexical functions, some questions related to defaults (e.g. syntactic realization defaults, inheritance of collocational properties within lexem classes etc.) should be investigated in more detail.</Paragraph>
    <Section position="1" start_page="0" end_page="0" type="sub_section">
      <SectionTitle>
4.1 Acknowledgements
</SectionTitle>
      <Paragraph position="0"> We would like to thank Sergei Nirenburg and our collegues at the IMS for the fruitful discussions in this paper. All remaining errors are of course our own.</Paragraph>
    </Section>
  </Section>
class="xml-element"></Paper>