uistics for at least thirty years.
&gt; &gt; The first major application of systemic theory was the SHRDLU system
&gt; &gt; by Winograd (1972).  The largest ongoing series of applications has
&gt; &gt; been developed at the USC Information Sciences Institute:  language
&gt; &gt; generation (Mann 1982; Hovy 1988); discourse analysis and rhetorical
&gt; &gt; structure (Mann &amp; Thompson 1992); and the interface between the lexicon
&gt; &gt; and world knowledge (Bateman et al. 1990; Matthiessen 1995).
&gt; &