Blurb:

Chapter 4 deals with two semantic interfaces that are implemented in text generation systems using systemic-functional grammar, i.e, chooser and inquiry semantics, whose framework is discussed in Chapter 2 and situation-specific semantic systems. The former approaches from below with respect to lexicogrammar and the latter from above, from context. The chapter discusses each of these two complementary approaches to semantics and their relative merits in adopting these approaches in one generation system.