A development Environment for an MTT-Based Sentence Generator

With the rising standard of the s ta te of the art in text generation and the increase of the number of practical generation applications, it becomes more and more important to provide means for the maintenance of the generator, i.e. its extension, modification, and monitoring by grammarians who are not familiar with its internals. However, only a few sentence and text generators developed to date actually provide these means. One of these generators is KPML (Bateman, 1997). I~PML comes with a Development Environment and there is no doubt about the contribution of this environment to the popularity of the systemic approach in generation.