Maurice Gross' grammar lexicon and Natural Language Processing
Claire Gardent, Bruno Guillaume, Guy Perrier, Ingrid Falk · 2005
Maurice Gross ’ grammar lexicon contains an extremly rich and exhaustive information about the morphosyntactic and semantic properties of French syntactic functors (verbs, adjectives, nouns). Yet its use within natural language processing systems is still restricted. In this paper, we first argue that the information contained in the grammar lexicon is potentially useful for Natural Language Processing (NLP). We then sketch a way to translate this information into a format which is arguably more amenable for use by NLP systems. 1. Maurice Gross’s grammar lexicon Much work in syntax concentrates on identifying and formalising general syntactic rules that are thought to be valid of a large class of words. Typically, Chomsky’s transformation rules describe systematic relations between syntactic structures. And more recently, the lexical rules of e.g., Lexical Functional Grammar systematically describes a pair of syntactic categories deemed to hold of a given class of words. But as Chomsky himself observed (Chomsky, 1965),