Syntactic properties of natural languages and application to automatic parsing
Jacques Vergene · Procesamiento del lenguaje natural · 1994
Research domain This work concerns syntax of natural languages, with a double aim: discover syntactic properties of natural languages, and base automatic parsing on these syntactic properties. Fundamental axiom: a natural language cannot be theorised as a formal language, nor processed as a formal language or a programming language. This work is on French in a fine way on both aspects, linguistic study and parsing; a precise linguistic study has been done on Spanish (in collaboration with Eduardo Lopez Gonzalo and Luis A. Hernandez Gomez of the E.T.S.I. Telecomunicacion, Universidad Politecnica Madrid); and punctual studies of transposability of concepts have been realised on some other natural languages. Until proof of the contrary, these concepts seems to be general properties of natural languages.