Incremental Generation by Incremental Parsing

The paper shows how an incremental generator can be constructed based on the incremental parsing framework described in Dynamic Syntax (DS)(Kempson et al., 2001), without adding a generator-specific vocabulary or intermediate levels of representation. The resulting generator is defined purely in terms of the parsing process, together with a notion of tree subsumption. This is shown to have various advantages including easy self-monitoring and psycholinguistic plausibility. A simple Prolog implementation is described, together with various possible improvements in efficiency.