Constraint Grammar
Title | Constraint Grammar PDF eBook |
Author | Fred Karlsson |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 441 |
Release | 2011-08-30 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110882620 |
Constraint-based Grammar Formalisms
Title | Constraint-based Grammar Formalisms PDF eBook |
Author | Stuart M. Shieber |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 9780262193245 |
Constraint-Based Grammar Formalisms provides the first rigorous mathematical and computational basis for this important area.
Grammatical theory
Title | Grammatical theory PDF eBook |
Author | Stefan Müller |
Publisher | Language Science Press |
Pages | 879 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3961102732 |
This book introduces formal grammar theories that play a role in current linguistic theorizing (Phrase Structure Grammar, Transformational Grammar/Government & Binding, Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical Functional Grammar, Categorial Grammar, Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Construction Grammar, Tree Adjoining Grammar). The key assumptions are explained and it is shown how the respective theory treats arguments and adjuncts, the active/passive alternation, local reorderings, verb placement, and fronting of constituents over long distances. The analyses are explained with German as the object language. The second part of the book compares these approaches with respect to their predictions regarding language acquisition and psycholinguistic plausibility. The nativism hypothesis, which assumes that humans posses genetically determined innate language-specific knowledge, is critically examined and alternative models of language acquisition are discussed. The second part then addresses controversial issues of current theory building such as the question of flat or binary branching structures being more appropriate, the question whether constructions should be treated on the phrasal or the lexical level, and the question whether abstract, non-visible entities should play a role in syntactic analyses. It is shown that the analyses suggested in the respective frameworks are often translatable into each other. The book closes with a chapter showing how properties common to all languages or to certain classes of languages can be captured.
Optimality Theory
Title | Optimality Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Prince |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2008-04-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0470759399 |
This book is the final version of the widely-circulated 1993 Technical Report that introduces a conception of grammar in which well-formedness is defined as optimality with respect to a ranked set of universal constraints. Final version of the widely circulated 1993 Technical Report that was the seminal work in Optimality Theory, never before available in book format. Serves as an excellent introduction to the principles and practice of Optimality Theory. Offers proposals and analytic commentary that suggest many directions for further development for the professional.
Constraint Solving and Language Processing
Title | Constraint Solving and Language Processing PDF eBook |
Author | Denys Duchier |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 187 |
Release | 2013-10-12 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 3642415784 |
The Constraint Solving and Language Processing (CSLP) workshop considers the role of constraints in the representation of language and the implementation of language processing applications. This theme should be interpreted inclusively: it includes contributions from linguistics, computer science, psycholinguistics and related areas, with a particular interest in interdisciplinary perspectives. Constraints are widely used in linguistics, computer science, and psychology. How they are used, however, varies widely according to the research domain: knowledge representation, cognitive modelling, problem solving mechanisms, etc. These different perspectives are complementary, each one adding a piece to the puzzle.
Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming - CP 2009
Title | Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming - CP 2009 PDF eBook |
Author | Ian P. Gent |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 861 |
Release | 2009-09-07 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 3642042430 |
This volume contains the papers presented at CP 2009: The 15th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming. It was held from September 20–24, 2009 at the Rectory of the New University of Lisbon, Portugal. Everyone involved with the conference thanks our sponsors for their support. There were 128 submissions to the research track, of which 53 were accepted for a rate of 41.4%. Each submission was reviewed by three reviewers, with a small number of additional reviews obtained in exceptional cases. Each review waseitherbyaProgrammeCommitteemember,orbyacolleagueinvitedtohelp by a committee member thanks to their particular expertise. Papers submitted as long papers were accepted at full length or not at all. It is important to note that papers submitted as short papers were held to the same high standards of qualityas long papers. There is thus no distinction in these proceedings between long and short papers, except of course the number of pages they occupy. As it happens, the acceptancerates of short and long papers wereverysimilar indeed. Therewere13submissionstotheapplicationtrack,ofwhich8wereaccepted, fora rateof61.5%.Papersunderwentthe samereviewprocessasregularpapers, and there was not a separate committee for reviewing application track papers. However, papers in the application track were not required to be original or novel research, but to be original and novel as an application of constraints.
Inductive Dependency Parsing
Title | Inductive Dependency Parsing PDF eBook |
Author | Joakim Nivre |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2006-08-05 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 1402048890 |
This book describes the framework of inductive dependency parsing, a methodology for robust and efficient syntactic analysis of unrestricted natural language text. Coverage includes a theoretical analysis of central models and algorithms, and an empirical evaluation of memory-based dependency parsing using data from Swedish and English. A one-stop reference to dependency-based parsing of natural language, it will interest researchers and system developers in language technology, and is suitable for graduate or advanced undergraduate courses.