SPL (Sentence Plan Language) is an abstract

notation In linguistics and semiotics, a notation is a system of graphics or symbols, characters and abbreviated expressions, used (for example) in artistic and scientific disciplines to represent technical facts and quantities by convention. Therefore, ...

representing the semantics of a sentence in

natural language In neuropsychology, linguistics, and philosophy of language, a natural language or ordinary language is any language that has evolved naturally in humans through use and repetition without conscious planning or premeditation. Natural languages ...

. In a classical

Natural Language Generation Natural language generation (NLG) is a software process that produces natural language output. In one of the most widely-cited survey of NLG methods, NLG is characterized as "the subfield of artificial intelligence and computational linguistics tha ...

(NLG) workflow, an initial text plan (hierarchically or sequentially organized factoids, often modelled in accordance with

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) is transformed by a sentence planner (generator) component to a sequence of sentence plans modelled in a Sentence Plan Language. A surface generator can be used to transform the SPL notation into natural language sentences. Probably the most widely used SPL language used today (2022) is AMR (

Abstract Meaning Representation Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) is a semantic representation language. AMR graphs are rooted, labeled, directed, acyclic graphs ( DAGs), comprising whole sentences. They are intended to abstract away from syntactic representations, in the se ...

, see there for further references), but is owes parts of its popularity to its application to NLP problems other than NLG, e.g., machine translation and semantic parsing.L. Banarescu, C. Bonial, S. Cai, M. Georgescu, K. Griffitt, U. Hermjakob, K. Knight, P. Koehn, M. Palmer, and N. Schneider (2013)
Abstract Meaning Representation for Sembanking
, Proc. Linguistic Annotation Workshop.

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