Prediction Using S-TAG

While the above aspects of systemic linguistics make it very attractive for use by a prediction system, in its present formulation systemic linguistics does have its draw-backs. In particular, while the aspects noted in systemic linguistics do affect the syntax chosen for the intended utterance, systemic linguistics itself has no formal explicit treatment of syntax. In this work we propose to augment the systemic grammar framework with a formal syntactic component. In particular, our investigation has led us to Tree Adjoining Grammar (Joshi, 1983) as a formalism which is particularly well suited for this task. In systemics, an utterance is made by going through a system of choices, each of which can be a choice at different strata; situation, semantics, or syntax. Selectin