SYNTACTICALLY BASED PARSING STRATEGIES: EVIDENCE FROM TYPOLOGICALLY DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
| Autor: | Marica De Vincenzi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Parsing
Computer science business.industry Singleton media_common.quotation_subject Principal (computer security) Ambiguity computer.software_genre Top-down parsing Sentence processing Feature (linguistics) Chain (algebraic topology) Artificial intelligence business computer Natural language processing media_common |
| Zdroj: | Sentence Processing: A Crosslinguistic Perspective ISBN: 9780585492230 |
| Popis: | Cross-linguistic investigation is a very popular topic in sentence processing. This chapter illustrates how cross-linguistic studies can motivate the formulation of a parsing strategy, and how methodological considerations can affect the comparisons among languages. One prediction of the minimal chain principal (MCP) is that the parser prefers postulating a singleton chain to postulating multimember chains. It predicts that in Italian in cases of ambiguities of the null-subject position the parser will prefer to postulate a "pro" that is in a singleton chain, to a "pro" that is in a longer chain. The case marking feature has allowed to test the abstract linguistic property at the base of the MCP, using unambiguously case-marked structures. Therefore, the MCP is supported not only as a principle driving the parser decisions at points of ambiguity, but also as a principle accounting for processing complexity. Keywords: Italian; languages; longer chain; minimal chain principal (MCP); parsing strategy; singleton chain |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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