Morphology and cross dependencies in the synthesis of personal pronouns in Romance languages

By Laurence Danlos, Fiammetta Namer. 1988

This paper describes some of the problems that arise from the synthesis of personal pronouns in a system that generates texts in Romance languages. It puts the emphasis first on the fact that the morphological level has to be taken into account early in the generation process, second on the numerous "cross dependency" phenomena which are to be found when the synthesis of an element X depends upon that of another element Y and when the synthesis of Y depends upon that of X. The linguistic examples are taken from French and Italian languages, for which a robust generation system has been implemented.

Subfields: Linguistics