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Dependency-based hybrid model of syntactic analysis for the languages with a rather free word order

  • University of Latvia

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Abstract

Although phrase structure grammars have turned out to be a more popular approach for analysis and representation of the natural language syntactic structures, dependency grammars are often considered as being more appropriate for free word order languages. While building a parser for Latvian, a language with a rather free word order, we found (similarly to TIGER project for German and Talbanken05 for Swedish) that none of these models alone is adequate. Instead, we are proposing an original hybrid formalism that is strongly built on top of the dependency model borrowing the concept of a constituent from the phrase structure approach for representing analytical (multi-word) forms. The proposed model has been implemented in an experimental parser and is being successfully applied for description of a wide coverage grammar for Latvian.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 16th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics, NODALIDA 2007
EditorsJoakim Nivre, Joakim Nivre, Heiki-Jaan Kaalep, Kadri Muischnek, Mare Koit
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages13-20
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9789985405130
Publication statusPublished - 2007
Externally publishedYes
Event16th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics, NODALIDA 2007 - Tartu, Estonia
Duration: 25 May 200726 May 2007

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 16th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics, NODALIDA 2007

Conference

Conference16th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics, NODALIDA 2007
Country/TerritoryEstonia
CityTartu
Period25/05/0726/05/07

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