Towards a formal representation for description rules

This paper explores a generalized specification for descriptions and description rules, on the basis of an extensive overview of applications of description grammars in literature. The aim of this research is to establish a formal representation for description rules and the implementation of a grammar interpreter that supports the specification of description grammars, discursive grammars or, in general, shape grammars including textual descriptions.

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