Automatic analysis of the German noun group and some problems
Gerd Lau, Hans Dieter Lutz · 1973
Since 1971 the research group "Maschinelle Syntaxanalyse" (MasA) has been working as a part of the project "Linguistische Datenverarbeittmg" (r~DV) at the "Institut fiJr deutsche Sprache ", supported by the "Bundesminister f'tir Forschung und Tectmologie" of the Federal Republic of Germany.The task of the MasA is to elaborate a system for analysing simple sentences of present-day-German." Simple sentences ", in this case, means any type of sentence with only one finite verb in it. The scope of the analysis.The team works on the basis of a so-called verb grammar.In this type of grammar the verb represents the nucleus of a sentence, thus being opposed to the subject-predicate-grammar. Proposals for the elaboration of such a grammar have been presented by Helbig-Schenkel, 1 Heringer 2 and Engel s This type of grammar is based on a verb lexicon, which describes all the obligatory and facultative objects that depend on the verb, e.g.treffen with two obligatory objects in Ich treffe ihn morgen 1 G. HELBIG, Der BegriO" der Valenz als Mittel der strukturellen Sprachbeschreibung und des Fremdsprachenunterrichts, in ~ Deutsch als Fremdsprache ~>, I (1965), pp.10-23.H. J. ~gER, Theorie der deutschen Syntax, Miinchen 1970.8 U. ENos, Bemerkungen zur Dependenzgrammatik, in ~ Neue Grammatiktheorien