XTAG System - A Wide Coverage Grammar for English

This paper presents the XTAG system, a grammar development tool based on the Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) formalism that includes a wide-coverage syntactic grammar for English. The various components of the system are discussed and preliminary evaluation results from the parsing of various corpora are given. Results from the comparison of X3AG against the IBM statistical parser and the Alvey Natural Language Tool parser are also given.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1994
• Where: COLING
• Authors: Christine Doran, Dania Egedi, Beth Ann Hockey, Bangalore Srinivas, Martin Zaidel
• Keywords: COLING 1994, COLING 2008, Grammar Development Tool, Tree Adjoining Grammar, Wide-coverage Syntactic Grammar