A desirable property for any system dealing with unrestricted natural language text is robustness, the ability to analyze any input regardless of its grammaticality. In this paper ...
This paper shows how higher levels of generalization can be introduced into unification grammars by exploiting methods for typing grammatical objects. We discuss the strategy of u...
Marc Moens, Jonathan Calder, Ewan Klein, Mike Reap...
We develop efficient dynamic programming algorithms for pattern matching with general gaps and character classes. We consider patterns of the form p0g(a0, b0)p1g(a1, b1) . . . pm-1...
Creole is a new born language emerging in most cases where language contact takes place. Simulating behaviors that creole communities are formed in some environments, we could cont...