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A Principle-Based System for Syntactic Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Matthew W. Crocker
Matthew W. Crocker*
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University of Edinburgh
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Traditional approaches to natural language processing (NLP) can be considered construction-based. That is to say, they employ surface oriented, language specific rules, whether in the form of an Augmented Transition Network (ATN), logic grammar or some other grammar/parsing formalism. The problems of such approaches have always been apparent; they involve large sets of rules, often ad hoc, and their adequacy with respect to the grammar of the language is difficult to ensure.

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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , March 1991 , pp. 1 - 26
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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1991

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