Demonstration of Genesys: A Very Large, Semantically Based Systemic Functional Generator

This paper provides background material to the demonstration to be given at COLING '90 of the GENESYS component of the COMMUNAL system. A presenter of such a demonstration should say (1) what the system is good for; (2) why it is good for it; and (3) what makes it different from alternative systems. The system to be demonstrated is just a part (though the single most important part) of a much more complex system, and some of the answers to the questions must be related to the overall system. So I shall describe that first, and then the generator itself.