Incremental production of preverbal messages with INC

INC (the incremental conceptualiser) is a cognitively motivated model of the first stage of language production, conceptualisation. Starting with basic conceptual representations of an observed moving object in a very reduced setting, provided by a perceptual pre-processing unit, INC produces preverbal messages that have the same structure as verbalisations of humans performing this task. Architecture and processing mechanisms of INC are based on simple, cognitively motivated principles. Its behaviour is controlled by parameters that are set according to the available resources. After presenting the principles of the INC architecture and exemplifying the construction of a conceptual representation we go into the details of how conceptual entities are chosen for verbalisation and demonstrate how the functioning of the generation algorithm is determined by parameter settings.