An Introduction to GRAEL - Grammars and Evolution : An Agent-Based Evolutionary Computing Approach to Memory-Based Syntactic Parsing of Natural Language

ISBN-13: 9783639169638 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 488 str.

Guy de Pauw

Opis

This book investigates memory-based syntactic parsingof natural language, using an agent-based,evolutionary computing approach. The proposedtechnique, dubbed GRAEL (GRAmmar EvoLution), offers ageneral purpose method for processing syntacticallyannotated corpora of natural language. It attempts toimprove grammars by grounding the evolutionaryoptimization of syntactic structures in agent-basedcommunication attempts. Using the same architecture,but different information sources, GRAEL can be shownto successfully handle a diverse range of grammarengineering tasks, such as grammar optimization(redistributing the probability mass of acorpus-induced grammar) and grammar rule discovery(automatically adding useful new rules to an existing grammar). This book also describes how GRAEL can beused to induce grammars for natural language fromscratch (grammar induction) and offers insightsinto the origins of syntactic patterns in human language.

O autorze

Guy De Pauw is a senior researcher at the CLiPS research center (University of Antwerp, Belgium) and the School of Computing and Informatics (University of Nairobi, Kenya). His work focuses on
he application of machine learning techniques to natural language processing. He is a leading researcher in the field of African language technology.