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The functionality of the system
The KPML development environment provides a convenient platform for the construction and maintenance of multilingual
linguistic resources. Interaction with the system is predominantly by combined mouse-click and graphical/textual information
presentation. User commands are offered for loading definitions of (multilingual and monolingual) linguistic resources in systemic
form, displaying these resources in a variety of ways useful for development and maintenance, performing static integrity checks
on the systemic network defined by the resources loaded, and using the resources for generation. It is also possible to use the
system as a blackbox tactical generator. The environment takes over and extends the functionality of the Penman text generation
system (Mann , Mann & Matthiessen , Penman Project ), going beyond that system in terms of ease of use, development support,
and multilingual design. gif The internal components of KPML and their functionality and communication channels are shown in
the block diagram in Figure 1.1.
Figure: Internal KPML components
Particular points of emphasis of the system include:
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