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The Metagrammar Goes Multilingual: A Cross-Linguistic Look at the V2-Phenomenon

  • Alexandra Kinyon
  • , Owen Rambow
  • , Tatjana Scheffler
  • , Sin Won Yoon
  • , Aravind K. Joshi
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • Université Paris Cité

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Abstract

We present an initial investigation into the use of a metagrammar for explicitly sharing abstract grammatical specifications among languages. We define a single class hierarchy for a metagrammar which allows us to automatically generate grammars for different languages from a single compact metagrammar hierarchy. We use as our linguistic example the verbsecond phenomenon, which shows considerable variation while retaining a basic property, namely the fact that the verb can appear in one of two positions in the clause. c2006 Association for Computational Linguistics.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCOLING/ACL 2006 - TAG+8
Subtitle of host publication8th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms, Proceedings of the Workshop
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages17-24
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)193243285X, 9781932432855
StatePublished - 2006
Event8th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms, TAG 2006, co-located with COLING/ACL 2006 - Sydney, Australia
Duration: Jul 15 2006Jul 16 2006

Publication series

NameCOLING/ACL 2006 - TAG+8: 8th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms, Proceedings of the Workshop

Conference

Conference8th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms, TAG 2006, co-located with COLING/ACL 2006
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CitySydney
Period07/15/0607/16/06

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