AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING TREE ADJOINING GRAMMARS FROM ABSTRACT SPECIFICATIONS

Automatically Generating Tree Adjoining Grammars from Abstract Specifications

The paper describes a system that can automatically generate tree adjoining grammars from abstract specifications. Our system is based on the use of tree descriptions to specify a grammar by separately defining pieces of tree structure that encode independent syntactic principles. Various individual specifications are then combined to form the elementary trees of the grammar. The system enables...

Tree-Adjoining Grammars as Abstract Categorial Grammars

categorial grammars are not intended as yet another grammatical formalism that would compete with other established formalisms. It should rather be seen as the kernel of a grammatical framework — in the spirit of (Ranta, 2002) — in which other existing grammatical models may be encoded. This paper illustrates this fact by showing how tree-adjoining grammars (Joshi and Schabes, 1997) may be embe...

Synchronous Tree-Adjoining Grammars

The unique properties of tree-adjoining grammars (TAG) present a challenge for the application of TAGs beyond the limited confines of syntax, for instance, to the task of semantic interpretation or automatic translation of natural language. We present a variant of TAGs, called synchronous TAGs, which characterize correspondences between languages. The formalism's intended usage is to relate exp...

Tree-Adjoining Grammars

Contextual Tree Adjoining Grammars

n rhi.\' pape1; 1i:e introduce a formalism called contextual tree adjoining grammar (CTAG). (::TAG.~ are a generalization of multi bracketed contextual reivriting gramnwrs (MBICR) which combine tree adjoini11g grammars (TAGs) and co11textual grammars. The generalization is to add a mechanism similar to obligatory adjoi11i11g in TAGs. Here, we present the definition o.f the model and some result...