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EACL
1993
ACL Anthology
13 years 5 months ago
New Frontiers Beyond Context-Freeness: DI-Grammars And DI-Automata
A new class of formal languages will be defined the Distributed Index Languages (DI-languages). The grammar-formalism generating the new class - the DI-grammars - cover unbound de...
Peter Staudacher
EACL
1993
ACL Anthology
13 years 5 months ago
A Tradeoff between Compositionality and Complexity in the Semantics of Dimensional Adjectives
Linguistic access to uncertain quantitative knowledge about physical properties is provided by dimensional adjectives, e.g. long-short in the spatial and temporal senses, near-far...
Geoffrey Simmons
EACL
1993
ACL Anthology
13 years 5 months ago
Localising Barriers Theory
Michael Schiehlen
EACL
1993
ACL Anthology
13 years 5 months ago
Delimitedness And Trajectory-Of-Motion Events
The first part of the paper develops a novel, sortally-based approach to the problem of aspectual composition. The account is argued to be superior on both empirical and computati...
Michael White
EACL
1993
ACL Anthology
13 years 5 months ago
Parsing the Wall Street Journal with the Inside-Outside Algorithm
We report grammar inference experiments on partially parsed sentences taken from the Wall Street Journal corpus using the inside-outside algorithm for stochastic context-free gram...
Yves Schabes, Michal Roth, Randy Osborne
EACL
1993
ACL Anthology
13 years 5 months ago
Type-Driven Semantic Interpretation of f-Structures
The formal architecture of Lexical Functional Grammar offers a particular formal device, the structural correspondence, for modularizing the mapping between the surface forms of a...
Jürgen Wedekind, Ronald M. Kaplan
EACL
1993
ACL Anthology
13 years 5 months ago
Ambiguity resolution in a reductionistic parser
We are concerned with dependencyoriented morphosyntactic parsing of running text. While a parsing grammar should avoid introducing structurallyunresolvable distinctionsin order to...
Atro Voutilainen, Pasi Tapanainen
EACL
1993
ACL Anthology
13 years 5 months ago
The Use of Shared Forests in Tree Adjoining Grammar Parsing
We study parsing of tree adjoining grammars with particular emphasis on the use of shared forests to represent all the parse trees deriving a well-formed string. We show that ther...
K. Vijay-Shanker