Linguistics and Computation - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 188152681X ISBN 13: 9781881526810

Casa editrice: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications, 1995

Riassunto

This volume is a collection covering the diverse areas of psycholinguistics, syntax, computational linguistics and phonology. Abney's paper on Chunks provides an interesting new approach to phrase structure, motivated by psycholinguist data, something that is rarely done. Berwick and Fong provide a history of computational implementations of (Chomskyan) Transformational Grammar. Cole's phonology paper, arguing from Chamorro and English stress that cyclicity is not needed in phonology, is also preceded by a one-and-a-half-page introduction on why this is relevant to computation. Coleman's contribution summarises work on computational phonology and describes the York Talk speech synthesis system. Hirschberg and Sproat's paper describes a system they have written to assign pitch accent to unrestricted text in an RT&T text-to-speech system. This is very much applied natural language processing, but their system represents a more thorough-going attempt at doing this well than has been previously attempted, and this appears to be the first write-up of this work. Johnson and Moss introduce Stratified Feature Grammar, a formal model of language, inspired by Relational Grammar but formalised by using and extending tools developed in the unification grammar community. Finally, Nakazawa extends further Tomita's work so that computer science LR parsing methods can be applied to natural language grammars, here feature-based grammars.

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Descrizione del libro

This volume represents an exploration of the notion that the principles of grammatical well-formedness and the principles of language processing are interdependent. They deal with the nature of syntactic structure and grammars for syntax, with strategies for parsing and generation, and with aspects of phonological structure and grammars for phonology. Some of the papers in this collection overlap two or more areas, and demonstrate the importance of integrating concepts from the theories of grammar and computation.

Contenuti

Part I. Syntax and Computation: 1. Formal devices for linguistic generalisations: West German word order in LFG Annie Zaenan and Ronald M. Kaplan; 2. Stratified feature for multistratal relational analysis David E. Johnson and Lawrence S. Moss; 3. Feature-based grammar as constraint grammar Alan M. Frisch; Part II. Automated Parsing and Generation: 4. A quarter century of computation with transformational grammar Robert C. Berwick and Sandiway Fong; 5. Chunks and dependencies: bringing processing evidence to bear on syntax Steven Abney; 6. Some open problems in head-driven generation Dale Gerdemann and Erhard Hinrichs; 7. Construction of LR parsing tables for grammars using feature-based syntactic categories Tsuneko Nakazawa; Part III. Phonology and Computation: 8. Phonology and computational linguistics - a personal overview John Coleman; 9. Eliminating cyclicity as a source of complexity and phonology Jennifer Cole; 10. Pitch accent prediction from text-analysis Julia Hirschberg and Richard Sproat.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 188152681X
• ISBN 13: 9781881526810
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 312
• Redattore: Cole Jennifer S., Green Georgia M., Morgan Jerry L.