Separating Surface Order and Syntactic Relations in a Dependency Grammar

1998/08/25 by Norbert Broeker
Computer Science · #cmp-lg #cs.CL

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published as Proc. COLING-ACL'98, pp 174-180 · 7 pages, LaTeX2e

arxiv created 1998/08/25 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

This paper proposes decoupling the dependency tree from word order, such that surface ordering is not determined by traversing the dependency tree. We develop the notion of a word order domain structure, which is linked but structurally dissimilar to the syntactic dependency tree. The proposal results in a lexicalized, declarative, and formally precise description of word order; features which lack previous proposals for dependency grammars. Contrary to other lexicalized approaches to word order, our proposal does not require lexical ambiguities for ordering alternatives.

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