Looking Beyond the Canonical Formulation and Evaluation Paradigm of Prepositional Phrase Attachment

Prepositional phrase attachment has long been considered one of the most difficult tasks in automated syntactic parsing of natural language text. In this thesis, we examine several aspects of what has become the dominant view of PP attachment in natural language processing with an eye toward extending this view to a more realistic account of the problem. In particular, we take issue with the manner in which most PP attachment work is evaluated, and the degree to which traditional assumptions and simplifications no longer allow for realistically meaningful assessments. We also argue for looking beyond the canonical subset of attachment problems, where almost all attention has been focused, toward a fuller view of the task, both in terms of the types of ambiguities addressed and the contextual information considered

Syntax of Hungarian

These books aim to present a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of the Hungarian language, rooted in theory but providing highly detailed descriptions, and intended to be of use to researchers, as well as advanced students of language and linguistics. As research in language leads to extensive changes in our understanding and representations of grammar, the Comprehensive Grammar Resources series intends to present the most current understanding of grammar and syntax as completely as possible in a way that will both speak to modern linguists and serve as a resource for the non-specialist

Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) is a constraint-based or declarative approach to linguistic knowledge, which analyses all descriptive levels (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics) with feature value pairs, structure sharing, and relational constraints. In syntax it assumes that expressions have a single relatively simple constituent structure. This volume provides a state-of-the-art introduction to the framework. Various chapters discuss basic assumptions and formal foundations, describe the evolution of the framework, and go into the details of the main syntactic phenomena. Further chapters are devoted to non-syntactic levels of description. The book also considers related fields and research areas (gesture, sign languages, computational linguistics) and includes chapters comparing HPSG with other frameworks (Lexical Functional Grammar, Categorial Grammar, Construction Grammar, Dependency Grammar, and Minimalism)