Generation of Turkish Verbal Groups with Systemic Functional Grammar

This paper mainly presents the verbal group part of a Turkish sentence gen erator that is currently under development for producing the actual text from its semantic description To concentrate on the text generation rather than text planning we assume that the semantic description of the text is produced in some way currently given by hand In the generation we need a linguistic theory to describe the linguistic resources and also a software tool to perform them in a computational environment We use a functional linguis tic theory called Systemic Functional Grammar SFG to represent the linguistic resources and FUF text generation system as a software tool to perform them In this paper we present the systemic functional representation and realization of Turkish verbal groups