Abstract
In this paper we suggest that a key feature to look for in a successful parser is its ability to lend itself naturally to semantic interpretation. We therefore argue in favour of a parser based on a semantically oriented model of grammar, demonstrating some of the benefits that such a model offers to the parsing process. In particular we adopt a systemic functional syntax as the basis for implementing a chart based probabilistic incremental parser for a non-trivial subset of English.- Anthology ID:
- 1993.iwpt-1.27
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Parsing Technologies
- Month:
- August 10-13
- Year:
- 1993
- Address:
- Tilburg, Netherlands and Durbuy, Belgium
- Editors:
- Harry Bunt, Robert Berwick, Ken Church, Aravind Joshi, Ronald Kaplan, Martin Kay, Bernard Lang, Makoto Nagao, Anton Nijholt, Mark Steedman, Henry Thompson, Masaru Tomita, K. Vijay-Shanker, Yorick Wilks, Kent Wittenburg
- Venue:
- IWPT
- SIG:
- SIGPARSE
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 351–367
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/1993.iwpt-1.27
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- A. Ruvan Weerasinghe and Robin P. Fawcett. 1993. Probabilistic Incremental Parsing in Systemic Functional Grammar. In Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Parsing Technologies, pages 351–367, Tilburg, Netherlands and Durbuy, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Probabilistic Incremental Parsing in Systemic Functional Grammar (Weerasinghe & Fawcett, IWPT 1993)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/corrections-2024-05/1993.iwpt-1.27.pdf