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