While the generative view of language processing builds bigger units out of smaller ones by means of rewriting steps, the axiomatic view eliminates invalid linguistic structures o...
We describe a new framework for dependency grammar, with a modular decomposition of immediate dependency and linear precedence. Our approach distinguishes two orthogonal yet mutua...
Abstract. This paper presents the basis of Property Grammars, a fully constraintbased theory. In this approach, all kinds of linguistic information is represented by means of const...
TRACT SPECIFICATIONS FEI XIA AND MARTHA PALMER Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 K. VIJAY-SHANKER Department of Com...
We claim that existing specification languages for tree based grammars fail to adequately support identifier managment. We then show that XMG (eXtensible MetaGrammar) provides a s...