A minor remark :-)

Module haddock for English.
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> Trent W. Buck <[email protected]>**20090509104917
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> +-- | This modules provides rudimentary natural language generation
> +-- (NLG) utilities.  That is, generating natural language from a
> +-- machine representation.  Initially, only English is supported at
> +-- all.  Representations are implemented for:

As much as I would enjoy NLG being mentioned in darcs, I'm not very
comfortable with saying that we do NLG here.

This can encompass a lot of potentially complex decisions: how do we
order sentences, how do we group things into sentences [one sentence?
two sentences?, which facts go in what sentence?], how do we refer to
things [John? the man?  him?], which words should we use, what order do
we put words in (i.e. what is the syntax of English wrt to the sentence
we want to say).  A tool that figures out the right endings for words is
useful to have in an NLG system (and I won't be surprised if the
potential interaction between that tool and the rest of the system is
more complex than people would expect), but to say very generally that
we're providing NLG utilities is a bit of a stretch.

-- 
Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow>
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