What Is a Natural Language and How to Describe It? Meaning-Text Approaches in Contrast with Generative Approaches (Invited Talk)

Authors:
Sylvain Kahane
Affiliations:
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Venue:
CICLing '01 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
Year:
2001

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Abstract

The paper expounds the general conceptions of the Meaning-Text theory about what a natural language is and how it must be described. In a second part, a formalization of these conceptions - the transductive grammars - is proposed and compared with generative approaches.