Dependency trees and the strong generative capacity of CCG

  • Authors:
  • Alexander Koller;Marco Kuhlmann

  • Affiliations:
  • Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany;Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • EACL '09 Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We propose a novel algorithm for extracting dependencies from the derivations of a large fragment of CCG. Unlike earlier proposals, our dependency structures are always tree-shaped. We then use these dependency trees to compare the strong generative capacities of CCG and TAG and obtain surprising results: Both formalisms generate the same languages of derivation trees --- but the mechanisms they use to bring the words in these trees into a linear order are incomparable.