The assignment of grammatical relations in natural language processing
Leonardo Lesmo, Vincenzo Lombardo · 1992
this paper is to sbow that the formalism of Relational Grammar can he integrated in a useful way in a general NL interpreter, in particular if the surface structures are represented via the dependency formalism. The paper examines the problems associated with the use of RG in an interpretive (as opposed to generative) framework, where the phase of surface relation hypothesization is critical. The partial configurationality of Italian can be exploited as heuristic information aiding the interpreter in selecting the preferable initial 1 The adjacency principle intuitively states that a word B, that stands between the words A and C in the sentence, results in the same position if we project Ihe related nedes in Ihe dependency u'ee onto a line