An Interaction Grammar for English Verbs
Shohreh Tabatabayi Seifi · 2012
Abstract. This paper accounts for the construction of a grammar for English verbs using Interaction Grammars. Interaction Grammar is a grammatical formalism based on the two key notions: polarities and constraint system. A polarity expresses an available resource or a lack of resource and is used to discriminate between saturated and unsaturated syntactic structures. A grammar is viewed as a system of constraints of different kinds: structural, feature and polarity constraints, which should be satisfied by the parse trees of sentences. We have developed a grammar for English verbs in affirmative clauses and finally we evaluated our grammar on the portion of a test suite of sentences, the English TSNLP, with LEOPAR parser which is a parser devoted to Interaction Grammars.