Grammatical competence and parsing performance

Grammatical Competence and Parsing Performance

Much psycholinguistic experimentation in recent years has been concerned with the nature of the human processes that give rise to the difficulties associated with sentences such as The author read the review smiled and Whilst he was writing the review flowed onto the page. The problem, of course, is that language is ambiguous, and these examples illustrate that in the face of local ambiguity, t...

Universal Parsing and Grammatical Variation

Parsing Parallel Grammatical Representations

~:aditional accounts of quantifier scope employ qualitative constraints or rules to account for scoping preferences. This paper outlines a feature-based parsing algorithm for a grammar with multiple simultaneous levels of representation, one of which corresponds to a partial ordering among quantifiers according to scope. The optimal such ordering (as well as the ranking of other orderings) is d...

Parsing Parallel Grammatical Representation

Traditional accounts of quantifier scope employ qualitative constraints or rules to account for scoping preferences. This paper outlines a feature-based parsing algorithm for a grammar with multiple simultaneous levels of representation, one of which corresponds to a partial ordering among quantifiers according to scope. The optimal such ordering (as well as the ranking of other orderings) is d...

Parsing for Grammatical Relations via Graph Merging

This paper is concerned with building deep grammatical relation (GR) analysis using data-driven approach. To deal with this problem, we propose graph merging, a new perspective, for building flexible dependency graphs: Constructing complex graphs via constructing simple subgraphs. We discuss two key problems in this perspective: (1) how to decompose a complex graph into simple subgraphs, and (2...