Memory-Inductive Categorial Grammar: An Approach to Gap Resolution in Analytic-Language Translation
Prachya Boonkwan, Thepchai Supnithi · 2008
This paper presents a generalized frame-work of syntax-based gap resolution in ana-lytic language translation using an extended version of categorial grammar. Translat-ing analytic languages into Indo-European languages suffers the issues of gapping, because “deletion under coordination ” and “verb serialization ” are necessary to be re-solved beforehand. Rudimentary operations, i.e. antecedent memorization, gap induction, and gap resolution, were introduced to the categorial grammar to resolve gapping is-sues syntactically. Hereby, pronominal ref-erences can be generated for deletion under coordination, while sentence structures can be properly selected for verb serialization. 1