ABSTRACT
Incrementality was devised within the field of computer science in the 1960s. Partial incrementality is, therefore, simply a special case of incrementality. However, since the main property that distinguishes incrementality from sequential processing is the interleaving of reading input and producing output, identifying systems as being partially incremental is problematic. Incrementality is a property of computational devices: models, systems, agents, processes, algorithms, functions, procedures, and so on. The blueprint for incrementality supports the parallel processing of increments, for example, by providing increment buffers in which these increments can be stored. Incremental processing has been known in computer science for quite a long time considering the youth of the discipline, namely since the 1960s. The notion of incremental processing prevalent in language production is more specific. The restriction of left-to-right incrementality to allow changes only to a defined point in the knowledge representation is too limited for conceptualization.
