Extraction of the complex terms : the contribution of categorial grammars
Ismaïl Biskri, Jean-Guy Meunier, Sylvain Joyal, F. Gayton · Archipel (Université du Québec à Montréal) · 2003
A long time categorial grammars were regarded as "toys grammars ".Indeed, in spite of a very solid theoretical base, categorial grammars remain rather marginal as soon as it is a question of conceiving concrete applications.However, this model of grammars has an unquestionable advantage compared to the majority of the other grammatical models: it is multilingual; multilingualism becoming, with the rise of the Web, one of the most significant constraints in the development of tools for natural language processing.In our article we propose a multilingual approach for the extraction of the complex terms using a linguistic filter founded on a categorial model.This filter belongs to a set of filters, some being of linguistic type, others of statistical type.We will describe our filters, however we will insist on that built by means of categorial grammars.Finally, our approach is by design interactive and constantly under the user's control.