Converting the Penn Treebank to Systemic Functional Grammar
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Systemic functional linguistics offers a grammar that is semantically organised, so that salient grammatical choices are made explicit. This paper describes the explication of these choices through the conversion of the Penn Treebank into a systemic functional grammar corpus. Developing such a resource can help connect work in natural language processing to a significant body of research dealing explicitly with the issue of how lexical and grammatical selections create meaning.
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