Information Structure in Topological Dependency Grammar

Topological Dependency Grammar (TDG) is a lexicalized dependency grammar formalism, able to model languages with a relatively free word order. In such languages, word order variation often has an important function: the realization of information structure. The paper discusses how to integrate information structure into TDG, and presents a constraint-based approach to modelling information structure and the various means to realize it, focusing on (possibly simultaneous use of) word order and tune.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: EACL
• Authors: Geert-Jan M. Kruijff, Denys Duchier
• Keywords: Dependency Grammar, EACL 2003, Information Structure, Natural Language Processing, Word Order