A Dependency Constraint Grammar for Esperanto
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This paper presents a rule-based formalism for dependency annotation within the Constraint Grammar framework, implemented as an extension of the open source CG3 compiler. As a proof of concept we have constructed a complete dependency grammar for Esperanto, building on morphosyntactically annotated input from the EspGram parser. The system is described and evaluated on a test corpus. With a 4% error rate, and most errors caused by simple error propagation from the morphosyntactic input module, our system has proven robust enough to be integrated into real life applications, such as the Lingvohelpilo spelland grammarchecker.
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