Title
Lean formalisms, linguistic theory, and applications: grammar development in ALEP
Abstract
This paper describes results achieved in a project which addresses the issue of how the gap between unification-based grammars as a scientific concept and real world applications can be narrowed down1. Application-oriented grammar development has to take into account the following parameters: Efficiency: The project chose a so called 'lean' formalism, a term-encodable language providing efficient term unification, ALEP. Coverage: The project adopted a corpus-based approach. Completeness: All modules needed from text handling to semantics must be there. The paper reports on a text handling component, Two Level morphology, word structure, phrase structure, semantics and the interfaces between these components. Mainstream approach: The approach claims to be mainstream, very much indebted to HPSG, thus based on the currently most prominent and recent linguistic theory. The relation (and tension) between these parameters are described in this paper.
Year
DOI
Venue
1996
10.3115/992628.992679
COLING
Keywords
Field
DocType
efficient term unification,application-oriented grammar development,level morphology,word structure,phrase structure,text handling component,lean formalisms,approach claim,corpus-based approach,linguistic theory,paper report,mainstream approach
Head-driven phrase structure grammar,Rule-based machine translation,Theoretical linguistics,Computer science,Unification,Grammar,Phrase structure rules,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Formalism (philosophy),Semantics
Conference
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
C96-1
5
0.71
References 
Authors
1
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Paul Schmidt150.71
Axel Theofilidis291.58
Sibylle Rieder371.18
Thierry Declerck430965.24