... 83] [Vauquois
& Chappuy 85]. The Static Grammar (shortly later
renamed the Structural Correspondence Specification
Grammar) , was designed to be adeclarativegrammar
formalism for defining ... transla-
tion of natural languages, COLGATE Universit~
New York, August 1985.
[Zaharin 86]
Zaharin Y.
"Strategies and heuristics in the analysis of
a natural language in machine translation". ...
quite a simple process to transfer applications in
the Static Grammar into STCG applications. Like the
Static Grammar, the STCG is basically aformalism
for specification, but given its formal...
... FUNCTIONAL UNIFICATION GRAMMAR:
A FORMALISM FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION
Martin Kay
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
3333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto
California 94304
and
CSLI, Stanford
Abstract ... elementary events take
place is of little importance. Lexical Functional Grammar and
Generalized Phrase-Structure grammar share these relational and
monotonic properties. They are also characteristics ... steps in a carefully
prescribed order.
• These advantages are available in large measure through
a class of formal devices that are slowly gaining acceptance in
linguistics and which are based...
...
focussed around the application of unification to
an informational structure that maps attribute
names (also called feature names, slot names, or
labels) to values (Kay, 198 4a; Kay, 1984b; ... (number@singular,
person@third) ,
subject @ (agreement@X))
INHERITANCE GRAMMARS
An IG consists of several IS -A statements
and several
grammar
rul¢~. Agrammar rule is
a definite clause which ... instead of "-,
the rule is treated as a context-free grammar
rule and the interpreter automatically appends
two additional arguments
(start
and end) to
facilitate parsing. The final...
... bed la lima file
la crema (M)cream la trama plot
la estratagema stratagem la yema yolk, fingertip
la forma form
-dad
la agilidad agility la severidad severity
la ansiedad anxiety la sociedad society
la ... are masculine:
el carisma, cisma (schism),clima, cometa (comet), delta, d´ a (day), emblema, mapa, planeta,
problema, tranv´ a (streetcar / tram).
In all these cases, save d´ a, mapa, and tranv´ a, ... same, one is always lost in rapid speech: la ayuda =
l’ayuda, para agradecerle = par’agradecerle. Note the very common, colloquial Mexican
expression for many: hasta pa’aventar pa’arriba (hasta...
... in Chapter 2.
In a typical active declarative clause such as this, Agent, Subject and Theme coincide
and are realised in one wording, in this case Janice. But in natural language use, a
situation ... declarative clauses. Compare:
Declarative negative: Nobody has called this afternoon.
Interrogative negative: Has nobody called this afternoon?
Hasn’t anybody called this afternoon?
When both are ... and
• five chapters dealing similarly with nominal, verbal, adjectival, adverbial and
prepositional groups and phrases.
In each case the aim is that of describing each pattern or structural element...
... alicate pliers
*la braga panties, knickers
*la escalera stairs
la estad´ıstica statistics
*la gente people
*la malla tights
*el pantal´on pants, trousers
el pijama / la piyama (M) pajamas
*la pinza ... edificio
El ´arbol est´aenelparque La hoz est´aenlamonta˜na
El gato est a cerca de (near) la puerta La naci´on est a contenta
El l´apiz est´aenlamesa La ni ˜na est a feliz
La flor est´aenelflorero La tribu ... siguiente
Caminar (M)/andar hasta Correos
No manejar un carro (M)/conducir un coche
(Yo) entrar en la cocina y abrir la ventana
Regresar a casa
Escribir una carta en la mesa
Los amigos vivir en Estados...
... straightforward and vibrant like vocabulary, especially when the latter tends
towards the informal and slang. The mortar of language (grammar) is never so interesting
as the bricks (vocabulary). ... a means of making sure that we have assimilated the grammatical points being
illustrated.
This Student Grammar of French is aimed at meeting all those needs. It is conceived in such a
way that ... others. This grammar book takes as its
basis the variety of French that oscillates between standard French – the French used for
news broadcasts and in good-quality newspapers and magazines – and the...
... unification-based approach is
that it enables us to describe grammar declaratively,
making the development and amendment of grammar
easy.
Analysis systems that are based on unification gram-
mars can ... Translating a Unification Grammar with Disjunctions into Logical Constraints
Mikio Nakano and Akira Shimazu*
NTT Basic Research Laboratories
3-1 Morinosato-Wakamiya, Atsugi 243-0198 Japan ... presented a method for translating agrammar
formalism with disjunctive information that is based on
path equations and lists of pairs of labels and values
into logical-constraint-based grammar representations,...
... ~ A may be
40
M. Marcus, 1991. "Very Large Annotated Database of
America~ English".
DARPA Speech and Naawal
Language Workshop, ~ Grove, Morgan
Kaufmarm.
F. Pereira and Y. Schabes, ...
Reestimation from Partially Bracketed Corlmra',
Proceedings ACY., 92,
Newark.
P. Resnik, 1992. "Probabilistic Tree-Adjoining
Grammar as a Framework for Statistical Natural
Language ...
the Air Travel Information System (ATIS)
spoken language corpus. Preliminary
experiments yield 96% test set parsing
accuracy.
1 Motivation
As soon as a formal grammar characterizes a non-...
... the Grammar Matrix as a crosslinguistic resource,
as one goal of the Grammar Matrix is to reduce the
cost of developing precision grammars. The fact
that agrammar capable of assigning valid analy-
ses ... that have not yet been analyzed (cf. Bald-
win et al, 2005).
5 Conclusion
This paper has presented a precision, hand-built
grammar for the Australian language Wambaya, and
through that grammar ... Wambaya, illustrating its semantic represen-
tations and analyses and measuring its performance
against held-out data. I hope to have shown the
grammar to be reasonably substantial, and thus an
interesting...
... emphasize that the predicate is intransitive and it
may have a locative adjunct. Similarly, a T.OBJECT
link is added from “kitap” to “okudu˘gum”. Similar
labels were added to the treebank manually ... for ap-
proximately 800 sentences.
(9) a. Uyudu˘gum araba yandı.
Sleep+PASTPART car burn+PAST.
The car I slept in burned.
b. Okudu˘gum kitap yandı.
Read+PASTPART book burn+PAST.
The book I read ... categorial and phrase structure grammars. In
Language and Information ed. Bar-Hillel, Addison-
Wesley, pages 99–115.
Yehoshua Bar-Hillel. 1953. A quasi-arithmetic descrip-
tion for syntactic description....
... and layout. To cover a large
range of styles, many patterns must be made avail-
able to the generator, even though only a fraction
are relevant for a particular company and a partic-
ular knowledge ... Hofmann. 1989. Paragraphs and anaphora.
Journal of Pragmatics, 13:239 250.
H. Horacek. 1997. An algorithm for generat-
ing referential descriptions with flexible inter-
faces. In 35th Annual ... of efficiency, ICONOCLAST employs
a top-down generator coupled with a unification
grammar. The grammar adheres strictly to Oc-
cain's razor: features or rules are admitted only
if they...
... HR xiangchang
'sausage', ^M xiangjiao 'banana', #A gutou 'bone', tt^f zhuzi 'pillar; column', YlJ- zhuzi
'bamboo'.)
yl gan qiang a rifle
(Also ... ba
'handle'
is
used
as a
classifier
for
things with
a
handle:
—fETJ
raters-?
-fcJE&l
Affilg
yi
ba dao
Hang
ba cud
san
ba
qiao
si
ba
shanzi
wii
ba san
liu
ba
saozhou
qi
... zhadan 'bomb', i^# zidan 'bullet', ^®# shouliudan 'hand-
grenade', '£> xln 'heart', 5FS yachi 'tooth', M xlng 'star', IS tang...