1994/12/01 by Bong Yeung Tom Lai, Lai, Bong Yeung Tom, Changning Huang +1
Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Natural Language Processing Techniques #Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation #cmp-lg #cs.CL
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cmp-lg/9412001
PostScript. 8 pages. Contains bitmap figures and will therefore print slowly. Will appear in Proceedings of 1994 Joint Conference of 8th ACLIC and 2nd PacFoCoL, Kyoto, Aug. 10-12, 1994
arxiv created 1994/12/01 · openalex publication_date 1994/12/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Dependency Grammar has been used by linguists as the basis of the syntactic components of their grammar formalisms. It has also been used in natural language parsing. In China, attempts have been made to use this grammar formalism to parse Chinese sentences using corpus-based techniques. This paper reviews the properties of Dependency Grammar as embodied in four axioms for the well-formedness conditions for dependency structures. It is shown that allowing multiple governors as done by some followers of this formalism is unnecessary. The practice of augmenting Dependency Grammar with functional labels is also discussed in the light of building functional structures when the sentence is parsed. This will also facilitate semantic interpretation.