Lexicalization and Grammar Development [article]

B. Srinivas, Dania Egedi, Christy Doran, Tilman Becker (University of Pennsylvania)
1994 arXiv   pre-print
In this paper we present a fully lexicalized grammar formalism as a particularly attractive framework for the specification of natural language grammars. We discuss in detail Feature-based, Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars (FB-LTAGs), a representative of the class of lexicalized grammars. We illustrate the advantages of lexicalized grammars in various contexts of natural language processing, ranging from wide-coverage grammar development to parsing and machine translation. We also present a
more » ... ethod for compact and efficient representation of lexicalized trees.
arXiv:cmp-lg/9410015v1 fatcat:km7qk7upcfgkfag7j4s5tj3hie