Towards an implementable dependency grammar
Timo Järvinen, Pasi Tapanainen · 1998
Syntactic models should be descriptively adequate and parsable. A syntactic description is autonomous in the sense that it has certain explicit formal properties. Such a description relates to the semantic interpretation of the sentences, and to the surface text. As the formalism is implemented in a broad-coverage syntactic parser, we concentrate on issues that must be resolved by any practical system that uses such models. The correspondence between the structure and linear order is discussed. 1 Introduction The aim of this paper is to define a dependency grammar framework which is both linguistically motivated and computationally parsable. A linguistically adequate grammar is the primary target because if we fail to define a descriptive grammar, its application is less useful for any linguistically motivated purposes. In fact, our understanding of the potential benefits of the linguistic means can increase only if our practical solutions stand on an adequate descriptive basis. Trad...