An intuitive tool for constraint based grammars

  • Authors:
  • Mathieu Estratat;Laurent Henocque

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Information et des Systèmes, Université d'Aix-Marseille III, Marseille cedex 20, France;Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Information et des Systèmes, Université d'Aix-Marseille III, Marseille cedex 20, France

  • Venue:
  • CSLP'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Constraint Solving and Language Processing
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Recent linguistic theories are feature-based and heavily rely upon the concept of constraint. Several authors have pointed out the similarity existing between the representation of the features in feature-based theories and the notions of objects or frames. Object-oriented configuration allows us to deal with these modern grammars. We propose here a systematic translation of the concepts and constraints introduced by two linguistic formalisms: the recent property grammars and the HPSG theory, to configuration problems representing specific target languages. We assess the usefulness of these translations by studying first a natural language subset with lexical ambiguities, using property grammars. Detailed explanations on the solver's behavior are given in this case. The article then presents a configuration model for a fragment of the HPSG grammar for English, together with details on implementing HPSG principles as configuration constraints.