Lexical functional grammar

... this book is to focus on LFG analysis. 1 1 Welcome to Lexical- Functional Grammar 1.1 Introduction Generative linguistics or generative grammar , a field of study that originates in the work ... the introduction, the purpose of this textbook is to teach the theory of syntax called Lexical- Functional Grammar. The concepts of the theory are built up piece-by-piece throughout the b...

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... Introduction A number of grammatical formalisms such as lexical- functional grammars (Kaplan 1982), head grammars (Pollard 1984) and tree adjoining grammars (Joshi 1975)(Vijay-Shanker 1987) were introduced ... cal Functional- Grammars", Technical Paper of FAI, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, SIG- FAI-9202. Nakanishi, R. et al. 1992. "On the Generative Capac...

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... Recently, a new theory of grammar has been advanced with the explictiy stated aim of meeting the dual demands of tearnability and pa~ability - the Lexical Functional Grammars (LFGs) of Bresnan ... can we get a lexical functional grammar to represent this problem? What we want is for satisfying a.~ignments to correspond to to well-formed sentences of some corresponding LFG...

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... of a full- fledged Lexical- Functional Grammar (LFG) and a constraint-based parser with partial parsing tech- niques. In the absence of a complete parse, a so- called “FRAGMENT grammar allows the ... effort involved in coding broad- coverage grammars by hand has often led to the spe- cialization of grammars to relatively small domains, thus sacrificing grammar coverage (i.e. the percent...

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... The Semantics of Resource Sharing in Lexical- Functional Grammar Andrew Kehler" Aiken Computation Lab 33 Oxford Street Harvard University ... derivation. 1 Introduction The resource-based approach to semantic compo- sition in Lexical- Functional Grammar (LFG) ob- tains the interpretation for a phrase via a logical deduction, beginning ... Section 5, 2 Previous Work...

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... their grammar simultaneously accounts for not only wordings (as the formal grammar schools) but also meanings (as the other functional grammar schools). +Syntagmatic grammar and paradigmatic grammar ... hence “the grammar is natural, and so to be organized around the text, or discourse” (Halliday, 1994). +Descriptive vs. prescriptive grammar Although traditional grammar and...

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... Tree-Substitution Grammar. But the model has also been applied to several other grammatical frameworks, e.g. Tree-Insertion Grammar (Hoogweg 2000), Tree-Adjoining Grammar (Neumann 1998), Lexical- Functional Grammar ... human sentence processing (Bod 2000d). This paper presents ongoing work on DOP models for Lexical- Functional Grammar representations, known as LFG-DOP (Bod &...

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... notation shows clearly the relationship of relational to transformational grammars on one hand, and to lexical- functional grammars on the other. Finally, we prove that the satisfiability problem ... VERSION OF FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR William C. Rounds University of Michigan Xerox PARC Alexis Manaster-Ramer IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Wayne State University I Abstract Kay&apo...

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... is based on the theory of lexical functional grammar (I/V.). The parser covers the fragment described in [1,94]. I.e., it is able to analyse constructions involving functional control and long ... A PROLOG IMPLEMENTATION OF LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR AS A BASE FOR A NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM Werner Frey and Uwe Reyle ... ~me~'ioan to win the c-stru~ture will...

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... 57–64, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007. c 2007 Association for Computational Linguistics Making Lexical Ontologies Functional and Context-Sensitive Tony Veale Computer Science and Informatics University ... therefore to the design of more flexible lexical ontologies that natu- rally adapt to their contexts of use. WordNet (Fell- 57 baum, 1998) is just one such lexical ontology that...

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