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Principled Multilingual Grammars for Large Corpora

Sharon Flank, Paul Krause, Carol Van Ess-Dykema
AAAI 1994 pp. 833-838
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Abstract

In-depth text understanding for large-scale applica-tions requires a broad-coverage, robust grammar. We describe a multilingual implementation of such a grammar, and its advantages over both principle-based parsing and ad-hoc grammar design. We show how X-bar theory and language-independent semantic constraints facilitate grammar development. Our im-plementation includes innovative handling of (1) syn-tactic gaps, (2) logical structure alternations, and (3) conjunctions. Each of these innovations enhances per-formance in both large-scale and multilingual natural language processing applications. Phrase structure grammars are hardly new. The nov-elty in this paper comes from the use of practical

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Flank et al. "Principled Multilingual Grammars for Large Corpora." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1994.

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[Flank et al. "Principled Multilingual Grammars for Large Corpora." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1994.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/1994/flank1994aaai-principled/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{flank1994aaai-principled,
  title     = {{Principled Multilingual Grammars for Large Corpora}},
  author    = {Flank, Sharon and Krause, Paul and Van Ess-Dykema, Carol},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {1994},
  pages     = {833-838},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/1994/flank1994aaai-principled/}
}