ABSTRACT
INC (incremental conceptotalizer) is a cognitively motivated model of the first
component of the language production process, conceptualization. It produces
preverbal output for the domain of giving on-line descriptions of events that has
the same structure as verbalizations of humans given the same task. The
architecture and processing mechanisms of INC are based on simple,
cognitively motivated principles. Its behavior is controlled by parameters that
are set according to the available resources. Thus, INC requires no explicit and
complex instructions about how to perform a given verbalization task, e.g. with
respect to the level of detail, because the level of detail is an effect that depends
on resources.
