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This chapter first summarizes the contributions of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to computational linguistics. It elaborates on Martin Kay’s Functional Unification Grammar, highlights the achievements of the Penman Project on text generation directed by William C. Mann and comments on the influences from computational linguistics on SFL. The connections between Cardiff Grammar and Nigel Grammar are also discussed.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Parker-Rhodes.

  2. 2.

    For some indications of the correspondences between Roget’s lexical taxonomy and systemic functional descriptions of lexicogrammar, see Halliday (1976) and Matthiessen (1995a).

  3. 3.

    See: http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/anglistik/langpro/kpml/kpml-description.htm.

  4. 4.

    See: https://nlp.stanford.edu/software/nndep.html.

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    Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen

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    Yuanyi Ma

  4. Department of English, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

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