This volume collects papers that are at the
cutting edge of research in computational as well
as theoretical linguistics. As all of the papers
represent research areas in which Ronald M. Kaplan
has made foundational contributions, the
papers in the volume represent a tribute to the
vital role he has played in the development of
computational linguistic research and linguistic
theory, particularly within Lexical-Functional
Grammar (LFG).
Part one, “Generation and Translation,” contains
contributions on the design of the most optimal
architecture for machine translation, parsing and
generation, as well as proposals for a machine
translation system which successfully combines
statistical methods with deep natural language
processing.
Part two, “Grammar Engineering and Applications,”
focuses on practical natural language processing
such as using the LFG grammar development
platform XLE for implementing tutoring systems,
building large lexicons and grammars, exploring
interactions of tagging and parsing, and building
large grammars and lexical resources from
treebanks.
Part three, “Formal Issues,” examines difficult
linguistic data and their treatment in formal
linguistic theory. These papers range from
contributions on Optimality Theoretical vs.
finite-state treatments of Finnish prosody to
mixed-category constructions to theories of
discourse and coordination. Foundational issues
addressed include interactions between morphology
and syntax in complex predicates, coordination
and agreement, and the resolution of coordination
asymmetries via f-structure analysis.
Part four, “Semantics and Inference,” examines
the fundamental issue of compositionality in
syntactic and semantic theory, and presents
cutting edge research on theoretical and
practical issues in mapping from linguistic
structures to knowledge representations.
Miriam Butt is Professor of Theoretical and Computational Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics, Universität Konstanz. Mary Dalrymple is University Lecturer in General Linguistics at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Linacre College. Tracy Holloway King is a senior member of the research staff at the Palo Alto Research Center and adjunct associate professor in Symbolic Systems at Stanford University.
- Contributors vii
- Preface xi
I Generation and Translation 1
- 1 Translation, Meaning and Reference 3
Martin Kay
- 2 Efficient Generation from Packed Input 19
John T. Maxwell III
- 3 Grammatical Machine Translation 35
Stefan Riezler and John T. Maxwell III
- 4 On Some Formal Properties of LFG Generation 53
Jürgen Wedekind
II Grammar Engineering and Applications 73
- 5 Using XLE in an Intelligent Tutoring System 75
Richard R. Burton
- 6 How Much Can Part-Of-Speech Tagging Help Parsing? 91
Mary Dalrymple
- 7 Rapid Treebank-Based Acquisition of Multilingual LFG Resources 111
Josef van Genabith
- 8 Hand-crafted Grammar Development - How Far Can It Go? 137
Christian Rohrer and Martin Forst
- 9 Using a Large, External Dictionary in an LFG Grammar: The STO Experiments 167
Beau Sheil and Bjarne Ørsnes
III Constraints on Syntax and Morphology 199
- 10 Agentive Nominalizations in Gikuyu and the Theory of Mixed Categories 201
Joan Bresnan and John Mugane
- 11 Restriction for Morphological Valency Alternations: The Urdu Causative 235
Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King
- 12 A (Discourse-)Functional Analysis of Asymmetric Coordination 259
Anette Frank
- 13 The Insufficiency of Paper-and-Pencil Linguistics: the Case of Finnish Prosody 287
Lauri Karttunen
- 14 Gender Resolution in Rumanian 301
Louisa Sadler
- 15 Animacy and Syntactic Structure: Fronted NPs in English 323
Neal Snider and Annie Zaenen
- 16 Accounting for Discourse Relations: Constituency and Dependency 339
Bonnie Webber
IV Semantics and Inference 361
- 17 Direct Compositionality and the Architecture of LFG 363
Ash Asudeh
- 18 Packed Rewriting for Mapping Text to Semantics and KR 389
Dick Crouch
- Index 417
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