Table i
GOVERNING PROBABILITIES
Type" of Dependent
Governor VT VI N A DV DS
VT 0 0 P1 S I 0 0 P2 P3
S 0
VI 0 0 1 0 0 P4 P5
N 0 0 P6 P7 0 0
A 0 0 0 0 0 0
DV 0 0 0 0 0 0
DS 0 0 I 0 0 0
The governing probabilities for a word are independent
of each other. In paragraph generation the decision to
select a dependent type will be made without regard to the
selection of other dependent types. For example, a noun
can have probabilities P6 and P7 of being the governor of
a noun and an adjective respectively. The selection of a
noun as a dependent based on P6 will not affect, and will
not be affected by, the selection of an adjective as a
dependent.
There are two types of co--occurrence data accompanying
every word in the glossary: a set of governing probabil-
ities and a list of dependents. The probability values
associated with a word are determined on the basis of the
syntactic behavior of the word in the processed text. If
a noun occurs in 75 instances as the governor of an
