1. A method of performing transfer functions on a packed phrase comprising: generating a first packed meaning representation for a phrase; applying one or more transfer functions to the first packed meaning representation to generate a transferred packed meaning representation; and generating alternate phrases for the transferred packed meaning representation, comprising: determining first unordered rewrite rules and first ordered rewrite rules based on the transferred packed meaning representation, wherein first unordered rewrite rules in semantic relation are associated with a corresponding pseudofact variable such that each pseudofact variable is associated with multiple first unordered rewrite rules; determining entries in a first phrasal information structure based on the transferred packed meaning representation and a first lexicon and in which the entries are comprised of syntactic information, semantic information, and corresponding source information associated with the first lexicon; substituting pseudofact variables into the first phrasal information structure for matching semantic information based on the first unordered rewrite rules; combining entries in the first phrasal information structure based on the first ordered rewrite rules, syntactic and semantic information; merging entries in the first phrasal information structure where the syntactic and semantic information of the entries indicate equivalent meaning; determining a first root phrasal entry in the first phrasal information structure; determining first alternate phrases based on the source information for the first root phrasal entry to form the transferred packed meaning representation; and displaying the transferred packed meaning representation on a user interface in a tree structure in relation to the first root phrasal entry.