@mastersthesis{Miezitis1,
  author = "Mara Miezitis",
  title = "Generating lexical options by matching in a knowledge base",
  school = "Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto",
  month = "October",
  year = "1988",
  note = "Published as technical report CSRI-217",
  abstract = "<p>The goal of this thesis is to explore the development of LOG, a Lexical
             Option Generator, to provide  <i>different</i> lexical options that may be used
             to express the <i>same</i> information. In addition to syntactic information,
             LOG provides pragmatic and stylistic information  with these options.
             The lexical units supplied by LOG may be words or phrases---including,
             possibly, <i>idioms</i>.  LOG requires the
             <i>matching</i> of input information to a knowledge base of 
             <i>situations</i> specifying the state of affairs that license the use
             of a particular lexical unit in output text.  A representative survey of 
             matching techniques is given, highlighting those aspects of the matchers 
             desirable for LOG.  The matching
             technique employed by LOG, using a <i>magnetization</i> process for
             directing information to situations likely to match, is  presented
             in detail.</p>"
}