Valence alternations and marking structures in a HPSG grammar for Mandarin Chinese
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چکیده
The paper discusses HPSG as a framework for the computational analysis of Mandarin Chinese. We point out the main characteristics of the framework and show how they can be exploited to target languagespecific issues, describe existing grammar engineering work for Chinese and present our own effort in the implementation of a grammar for Chinese. The grammar is illustrated with two fields of phenomena, namely semantic and syntactic marking and valence alternations. We aim at the integration of work in theoretical linguistics into computational applications in order to complement statistical methods and thus increase their accuracy and scalability.
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