A Semantic Interpreter for Systemic Grammars

This paper describes a method for obtaining the semantic representation for a syntax tree in Systemic Grammar (SG). A prototype implementation of this method the REVELATION1 semantic interpreter has been ldeveloped. It is derived from a SG generator foe a large subset of English GENESYS and is !thus, in contrast with most reversible grammars, fan interpreter based on a generator. A task decomposition approach is adopted for this reversal process which operates within the framework of SG, thus demonstrating that Systemic Grammars can be reversed and hence that a SG is a truly bi-directional formalism, p

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