ABSTRACT
The incremental conceptualiser (inC) is a model of the first stage of the human language production system according to W. J. Levelt. The starting point of conceptualisation can be located at different places in cognition, depending on the domain that is spoken about. inC generates online descriptions of events. inC can generate verbal descriptions for two domains: motion events and sketch generation events. For each domain there is a perceptual pre-processing unit, which is not part of inC. By assigning different values to parameters, which model cognitive resources, inC's behaviour is adapted so that different preverbal messages can be generated for the same sequence of perceived entities. The construction process is supported by the concept matcher, which matches the incoming perceived entities onto productions stored in the concept storage in order to build up hierarchical conceptual structures.
