Blurb:

Chapter 2 illustrates how systemic functional linguistics makes contributions in the areas of grammar and choosers for grammar in computation to fulfil the demands placed upon a large-scale computational grammar in a text generator, Nigel, that was being developed as part of Penman project. In particular it demonstrates the metafunctional organization of systemic grammar that leads naturally to a multi-functional factoring of the sentence generation process. This process is then defined in terms of features of grammatical and semantic choice and their realization statements with realization operators for text generation.