The Problems of Learning a Lexicon with a Formal Grammar
Title | The Problems of Learning a Lexicon with a Formal Grammar PDF eBook |
Author | Sofia Hörmander |
Publisher | |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Lexicography |
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The possibility of using a logic grammar as the basis for automatically generating a part-of-speech lexicon is investigated, and an implementation of such a lexicon learner is demonstrated together with several possible improvements concerning efficiency and other factors.
The Problems of Learning a Lexicon with a Prolog Based Grammar
Title | The Problems of Learning a Lexicon with a Prolog Based Grammar PDF eBook |
Author | Sofia Hörmander |
Publisher | |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Lexicography |
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Formal Grammars in Linguistics and Psycholinguistics
Title | Formal Grammars in Linguistics and Psycholinguistics PDF eBook |
Author | Willem J. M. Levelt |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 593 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027232512 |
Almost four decades have passed since "Formal Grammars "first appeared in 1974. At that time it was still possible to rather comprehensively review for (psycho)linguists the relevant literature on the theory of formal languages and automata, on their applications in linguistic theory and in the psychology of language. That is no longer feasible. In all three areas developments have been substantial, if not breathtaking. Nowadays, an interested linguist or psycholinguist opening any text on formal languages can no longer see the wood for the trees, as it is by no means evident which formal, mathematical tools are really required for natural language applications. An historical perspective can be helpful here. There are paths through the wood that have been beaten since decades; they can still provide useful orientation. The origins of these paths can be traced in the three volumes of "Formal Grammars," brought together in the present re-edition. In a newly added postscript the author has sketched what has become, after all these years, of formal grammars in linguistics and psycholinguistics, or at least some of the core developments. This chapter may provide further motivation for the reader to make a trip back to some of the historical sources.
Formal Grammar
Title | Formal Grammar PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Fraser University. Cognitive Science Programme |
Publisher | New York : Oxford University Press |
Pages | 449 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Biolinguistics |
ISBN | 019507310X |
The second volume in the Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science series, this collection presents recent work in the fields of phonology, morphology, semantics, and neurolinguistics. Its overall theme is the relationship between the contents of grammatical formalisms and their real-time realizations in machine or biological systems. Individual essays address such topics as learnability, implementability, computational issues, parameter setting, and neurolinguistic issues. Contributors include Janet Dean Fodor, Richard T. Oehrle, Bob Carpenter, Edward P. Stabler, Elan Dresher, Arnold Zwicky, Mary-Louis Kean, and Lewis P. Shapiro.
Formal Languages and Applications
Title | Formal Languages and Applications PDF eBook |
Author | Carlos Martin-Vide |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 612 |
Release | 2013-03-09 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 3540398864 |
Formal Languages and Applications provides a comprehensive study-aid and self-tutorial for graduates students and researchers. The main results and techniques are presented in an readily accessible manner and accompanied by many references and directions for further research. This carefully edited monograph is intended to be the gateway to formal language theory and its applications, so it is very useful as a review and reference source of information in formal language theory.
Analogical classification in formal grammar
Title | Analogical classification in formal grammar PDF eBook |
Author | Matías Guzmán Naranjo |
Publisher | Language Science Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3961101868 |
The organization of the lexicon, and especially the relations between groups of lexemes is a strongly debated topic in linguistics. Some authors have insisted on the lack of any structure of the lexicon. In this vein, Di Sciullo & Williams (1987: 3) claim that “[t]he lexicon is like a prison – it contains only the lawless, and the only thing that its inmates have in commonis lawlessness”. In the alternative view, the lexicon is assumed to have a rich structure that captures all regularities and partial regularities that exist between lexical entries.Two very different schools of linguistics have insisted on the organization of the lexicon. On the one hand, for theories like HPSG (Pollard & Sag 1994), but also some versions of construction grammar (Fillmore & Kay 1995), the lexicon is assumed to have a very rich structure which captures common grammatical properties between its members. In this approach, a type hierarchy organizes the lexicon according to common properties between items. For example, Koenig (1999: 4, among others), working from an HPSG perspective, claims that the lexicon “provides a unified model for partial regularties, medium-size generalizations, and truly productive processes”. On the other hand, from the perspective of usage-based linguistics, several authors have drawn attention to the fact that lexemes which share morphological or syntactic properties, tend to be organized in clusters of surface (phonological or semantic) similarity (Bybee & Slobin 1982; Skousen 1989; Eddington 1996). This approach, often called analogical, has developed highly accurate computational and non-computational models that can predict the classes to which lexemes belong. Like the organization of lexemes in type hierarchies, analogical relations between items help speakers to make sense of intricate systems, and reduce apparent complexity (Köpcke & Zubin 1984). Despite this core commonality, and despite the fact that most linguists seem to agree that analogy plays an important role in language, there has been remarkably little work on bringing together these two approaches. Formal grammar traditions have been very successful in capturing grammatical behaviour, but, in the process, have downplayed the role analogy plays in linguistics (Anderson 2015). In this work, I aim to change this state of affairs. First, by providing an explicit formalization of how analogy interacts with grammar, and second, by showing that analogical effects and relations closely mirror the structures in the lexicon. I will show that both formal grammar approaches, and usage-based analogical models, capture mutually compatible relations in the lexicon.
An Introduction to the Theory of Formal Languages and Automata
Title | An Introduction to the Theory of Formal Languages and Automata PDF eBook |
Author | Willem J. M. Levelt |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 151 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027232504 |
The present text is a re-edition of Volume I of Formal Grammars in Linguistics and Psycholinguistics, a three-volume work published in 1974. This volume is an entirely self-contained introduction to the theory of formal grammars and automata, which hasn't lost any of its relevance. Of course, major new developments have seen the light since this introduction was first published, but it still provides the indispensible basic notions from which later work proceeded. The author's reasons for writing this text are still relevant: an introduction that does not suppose an acquaintance with sophisticated mathematical theories and methods, that is intended specifically for linguists and psycholinguists (thus including such topics as learnability and probabilistic grammars), and that provides students of language with a reference text for the basic notions in the theory of formal grammars and automata, as they keep being referred to in linguistic and psycholinguistic publications; the subject index of this introduction can be used to find definitions of a wide range of technical terms. An appendix has been added with further references to some of the core new developments since this book originally appeared.