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<p class="MsoNormal">Louis indicated that we should consider modeling and approaches encompassing the features of all languages [1].</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Factors that affect verb conjugation are numerous and we can envision a verb conjugation function which gathers these factors together from across languages, a function resembling:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">conjugate(language, stem, person, number, gender, tense, aspect, mood, voice, formality, clusivity, transitivity, valency, evidentiality)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The following example utilizes a <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">
Context</span> parameter as we haven’t yet discussed global variables. The following example uses a “::” syntax for enums. The following example shows that, with multilingual conjugation and declension functions, we could encapsulate multilingual conjugation
and declension in language-specific convenience functions, perhaps resembling:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">kick<T>(Context context, Noun agent, Noun patient)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">{<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> join(" ", [<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> agent,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> context.conjugate("en-US", "kick", person::second, agent.number, agent.gender, T, aspect::perfective, mood::indicative, voice::active, context.formality, clusivity::no, transitivity::transitive,
valency::transitive, context.evidentiality),<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> "the",<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> patient<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> ])<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">and, as expected:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">kick<tense::past>(context, Bobby, ball)</span> would produce: “Bobby kicked the ball”.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It appears that there are a multitude of ways to approach implementing NLG-related Wikilambda functions. Conjugation and declension functions could be components of some approaches.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What do you think about conjugation and declension functions?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Adam</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">[1] <a href="https://wals.info/">https://wals.info/</a></p>
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