A Logic Based Implementation of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
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A Logic Based Implementation of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar in, Charles Brown and Gregers Koch, Natural Language Understanding and Logic Programming, V.III, Amsterdam, Elsevier, 1991, 227 - 146, [Popowich, Fred and Carl Vogel]Download Item:
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Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), a unification-based formal language for
describing linguistic phenomena, has a declarative semantics which makes it amenable to
specification as a logic program. The HPSG formalism has undergone significant
modification, becoming more declarative and incorporating greater lexicalization, since
Proudian and Pollard first introduced a LISP-based HPSG chart parser in 1985. These
theoretical developments have led us to the Prolog implementation of an HPSG interpreter
which is described in this paper. We provide a brief introduction to the HPSG formalism,
and then illustrate how a natural language grammar based on this formalism can be stated in
a declarative notation that is directly interpretable by a Prolog chart-parser. This process
leads us to refinements in both the specification of the formalism and the interpretation
methodology.
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Author: VOGEL, CARL; VOGEL, CARL
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