Discontinuous Grammar : A dependency-based model of human parsing and language learning

ISBN-13: 9783639172812 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 448 str.

Matthias Buch-Kromann

Opis

This book presents a new model of human language,human parsing, and human language learning. Itprovides a detailedformal account of awide range of linguistic phenomena, includingdiscontinuous wordorder, secondary dependencies, parasitic gaps,elliptic coordinations,punctuation, and important aspects of morphology anddiscourse. Thebook argues for a probabilistic model of language,and proposes apsycholinguistically motivated non-projectivedependency parsingalgorithm that can take advantage of theprobabilistic model.The book falls within the tradition of dependencygrammar, butdiffers from dependency theories such as WordGrammar, Functional Generative Description, andMeaning Text Theory by building on a purelyprobabilistic conception of human language,and by providing a unified account of computationallinguistics, psycholinguistics, and linguistics.Thetheory has been used as the basis for the 100,000word DanishDependency Treebank and the Copenhagen DependencyTreebank forDanish-English.The book is targeted towards researchers and studentsworking withincomputational linguistics, psycholinguistics, andlinguistics.

O autorze

Matthias Buch-Kromann is an associate professor in computational
linguistics at the Copenhagen Business School. His research
interests include dependency treebanks,
parsing, language modelling, and machine translation. He
habilitated with the present book, earning a dr.ling.merc. degree
from the Copenhagen Business School in 2006.