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doi:10.22028/D291-25856
Title: | Extensible Dependency Grammar: a modular grammar formalism based on multigraph description |
Author(s): | Debusmann, Ralph |
Language: | German |
Year of Publication: | 2006 |
DDC notations: | 004 Computer science, internet |
Publikation type: | Dissertation |
Abstract: | This thesis develops Extensible Dependency Grammar (XDG), a new grammar formalism combining dependency grammar, model-theoretic syntax, and Jackendoff';s parallel grammar architecture. The design of XDG is strongly geared towards modularity: grammars can be modularly extended by any linguistic aspect such as grammatical functions, word order, predicate-argument structure, scope, information structure and prosody, where each aspect is modeled largely independently on a separate dimension. The intersective demands of the dimensions make many complex linguistic phenomena such as extraction in syntax, scope ambiguities in the semantics, and control and raising in the syntax-semantics interface simply fall out as by-products without further stipulation. This thesis makes three main contributions: 1. The first formalization of XDG as a multigraph description language in higher order logic, and investigations of its expressivity and computational complexity. 2. The first implementation of XDG, the XDG Development Kit (XDK), an extensive grammar development environment built around a constraint parser for XDG. 3. The first application of XDG to natural language, modularly modeling a fragment of English. |
Link to this record: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:291-scidok-9323 hdl:20.500.11880/25912 http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-25856 |
Advisor: | Smolka, Gert |
Date of oral examination: | 3-Nov-2006 |
Date of registration: | 4-Jan-2007 |
Faculty: | MI - Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik |
Department: | MI - Informatik |
Collections: | SciDok - Der Wissenschaftsserver der Universität des Saarlandes |
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