Clausal Modifiers in the Grammar Matrix

Kristen Howell, Olga Zamaraeva


Abstract
We extend the coverage of an existing grammar customization system to clausal modifiers, also referred to as adverbial clauses. We present an analysis, taking a typologically-driven approach to account for this phenomenon across the world’s languages, which we implement in the Grammar Matrix customization system (Bender et al., 2002, 2010). Testing our analysis on testsuites from five genetically and geographically diverse languages that were not considered in development, we achieve 88.4% coverage and 1.5% overgeneration.
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C18-1249
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Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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August
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2018
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Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Emily M. Bender, Leon Derczynski, Pierre Isabelle
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COLING
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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2939–2952
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Kristen Howell and Olga Zamaraeva. 2018. Clausal Modifiers in the Grammar Matrix. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 2939–2952, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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