Language Analysis In Schisma

Abstract

Introduction schisma is a research project that is concerned with the development of a natural language accessible theatre information and booking system. In this project two research approaches can be distinguished. One approach is devoted to theoretical research in the areas syntax, semantics and pragmatics.Research on syntax has been conducted on a unifying parsing approach [7], left and head corner grammars [6], on stochastic context-free grammars [1] and on unification grammar parsing [2][4]. Research on semantics and pragmatics has been conducted on dialogue act classification [3] and from a logical point of view [5]. The other approach is more practically oriented in that it is more focused on the realisation of a fully functional prototype of the SCHISMA system. To this purpose, in the past, the interface development system Natural Language tm has been used for implementing a schisma prototype, a Wizard of Oz e