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Natural Language Parsing and Linguistic Theories

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Editors:
  1. U. Reyle

    1. Institute for Computational Linguistics, University of Stuttgart, Germany

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  2. C. Rohrer

    1. Institute for Computational Linguistics, University of Stuttgart, Germany

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Part of the book series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy (SLAP, volume 35)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    • Uwe Reyle, Christian Rohrer
    Pages 1-32

  3. Separating Linguistic Analyses from Linguistic Theories

    • Stuart M. Shieber
    Pages 33-68

  4. Applicability of Indexed Grammars to Natural Languages

    • Gerald Gazdar
    Pages 69-94

  5. A Natural Language Toolkit: Reconciling Theory with Practice

    • Branimir Boguraev
    Pages 95-130

  6. An Extension of LR-Parsing for Lexical Functional Grammar

    • Jörg Kindermann, Justus Meier
    Pages 131-148

  7. An Efficiency-Oriented LFG Parser

    • Hans-Ulrich Block, Hans Haugeneder
    Pages 149-176

  8. Parsing with a GB-Grammar

    • Eric Wehrli
    Pages 177-201

  9. Combining Categorial Grammar and Unification

    • Henk Zeevat
    Pages 202-229

  10. A Feature-Based Categorial Morpho-Syntax for Japanese

    • Pete J. Whitelock
    Pages 230-261

  11. The Treatment of the French Adjectif Detache in Lexical Functional Grammar

    • Christoph Schwarze
    Pages 262-288

  12. Some Problems of Coordination in German

    • Dieter Wunderlich
    Pages 289-316

  13. German Word Order and Universal Grammar

    • Gisbert Fanselow
    Pages 317-355

  14. Nonlocal-Dependencies and Infinitival Constructions in German

    • Klaus Netter
    Pages 356-410

  15. GPSG and German Word Order

    • Christa Hauenschild
    Pages 411-431

  16. Nested Cooper Storage: The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary Noun Phrases

    • William R. Keller
    Pages 432-447

  17. Compositional Semantics for LFG

    • Uwe Reyle
    Pages 448-474

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 475-484
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presupposition fails, we now give a short introduction into Unification Grammar. Since all implementations discussed in this volume use PROLOG (with the exception of BlockjHaugeneder), we felt that it would also be useful to explain the difference between unification in PROLOG and in UG. After the introduction to UG we briefly summarize the main arguments for using linguistic theories in natural language processing. We conclude with a short summary of the contributions to this volume. UNIFICATION GRAMMAR 3 Feature Structures or Complex Categories. Unification Grammar was developed by Martin Kay (Kay 1979). Martin Kay wanted to give a precise defmition (and implementation) of the notion of 'feature'. Linguists use features at nearly all levels of linguistic description. In phonetics, for instance, the phoneme b is usually described with the features 'bilabial', 'voiced' and 'nasal'. In the case of b the first two features get the value +, the third (nasal) gets the value -. Feature­ value pairs in phonology are normally represented as a matrix. bilabial: + voiced: + I nasal: - [Feature matrix for b.] In syntax features are used, for example, to distinguish different noun classes. The Latin noun 'murus' would be characterized by the following feature-value pairs: gender: masculin, number: singular, case: nominative, pred: murus. Besides a matrix representation one frequently fmds a graph representation for feature value pairs. The edges of the graph are labelled by features. The leaves denote the value of a feature.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Computational Linguistics, University of Stuttgart, Germany

    U. Reyle, C. Rohrer

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Natural Language Parsing and Linguistic Theories

  • Editors: U. Reyle, C. Rohrer

  • Series Title: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1337-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1988

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-55608-055-5Due: 29 February 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-55608-056-2Published: 29 February 1988

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-1337-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4662

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-034X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 486

  • Topics: Computational Linguistics, Linguistics, general, Syntax, Artificial Intelligence

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