Syntactic Normalization Of Spontaneous Speech

This paper presents some techniques that provide a standard parsing system for the analysis of ill-formed utterances. These techniques are feature generalization and heuristically driven deletions. PROBLEM Generally the development of grammars, formalisms and natural language processors is based on written language data or, sometimes, not real data at all, but invented 'example sentences'. This holds for both computational and general linguistics. Thus many parsing systems that work quite well for sentences like la. and lb. fail, if they get applied to the authentic data in 2a. and 2b.: la. lb. 2a. 2b. die Grundform ist nicht eckig the basic form is not angular das blaue habe ich als Waage auf dem gr0nen llegen I have got the blue one lying upon theOATgreenOAT OneDATlike a balance die die Grund die Grundform sind is nich Is nleh eckig the the basic the basic form are is not is not angular das blaue hab ich ale Waage aul das gr0ne liegen I have got the blue one lying upon the...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1990
• Where: COLING
• Authors: Hagen Langer
• Keywords: Angular Das, COLING 1990, COLING 2008, Das Blaue Habe, Die Grundform