Coping with dynamic syntactic strategies: an experimental environment for an experimental parser

  • Authors:
  • Oliviero Stock

  • Affiliations:
  • I.P. - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Roma, Italy

  • Venue:
  • EACL '87 Proceedings of the third conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 1987

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Abstract

An environment built around WEDNESDAY 2, a chart based parser is introduced. The environment is in particular oriented towards exploring dynamic aspects of parsing. It includes a number of specialized tools that consent an easy, graphics-based interaction with the parser. It is shown in particular how a combination of the characteristics of the parser(based on the lexicon and on dynamic unification) and of the environment allow a nonspecialized user to explore heuristics that may alter the basica control of the system. In this way, for instance, a psycholinguist may explore ideas on human parsing strategies, or a "language engineer" may find useful heuristics for parsing within a particular application.