English Generation

I searched through the archives for any discussion of autogeneration of
English renditions of statements in a Powerloom KB. Has there been any
development since Hans' statement, below? If so, could someone please
point me to the relevant documentation?
 
 
 
A new cognitive theory of emotion,
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/aleader

>From [email protected]  Mon Oct 20 20:45:52 2003
From: [email protected] (Hans Chalupsky)
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 12:45:52 -0700
Subject: [PowerLoom Forum] assertion to English conversion?
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>

There is no standard PowerLoom mechanism yet to do this.  The `lexeme'
and `phrase' assertions in pl-kernel-kb.ste are only some initial
steps towards a capability like this.  NL-rendering is fairly easy for
most ground assertions such as `(father-of frank joe)' (you could
easily write this yourself if you really need it).  Solving this
generically for rules is much more difficult if you want to generate
language that can actually be understood by humans.  We are therefore
considering a template-based approach to handle this problem for one
of our new projects.  Depending on how things go a simple NL-rendering
capability might become available sometime next year.

Hans

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