VINCILINGUA

The current implementation provides for semantic transformations which convert semantic expressions into preselections. The relationship between give(goodfairy, hero, magicobj) and the earlier local preselection is fairly obvious. As the expressions themselves include no reference to the syntax of any language (and recall that the attributes are merely names, not meaningful words of English), we strive to make them language-independent, so as to form the basis for multi-lingual generation. The expressions above have, in fact, given rise to fairy stories both in English and French.

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