ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Morphological processing in the Nabu system
ANLC '88 Proceedings of the second conference on Applied natural language processing
The design of a computer language for linguistic information
ACL '84 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Structure-sharing in lexical representation
ACL '85 Proceedings of the 23rd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Categorial unification grammars
COLING '86 Proceedings of the 11th coference on Computational linguistics
Inheritance in natural language processing
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on inheritance: I
Enabling technology for multilingual natural language generation: the KPML development environment
Natural Language Engineering
An ontology of systematic relations for a shared grammar of Slavic
COLING '00 Proceedings of the 18th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
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We describe a prototype SHARED GRAMMAR for the syntax of simple nominal expressions in Arabic, English, French, German, and Japanese implemented at MCC. In this grammar, a complex inheritance lattice of shared grammatical templates provides parts that each language can put together to form language-specific grammatical templates. We conclude that grammar sharing is not only possible but also desirable. It forces us to reveal crosslinguistically invariant grammatical primitives that may otherwise remain conflated with other primitives if we deal only with a single language or language type. We call this the process of GRAMMATICAL ATOMIZATION. The specific implementation reported here uses categorial unification grammar. The topics include the mono-level nominal category N, the functional distinction between ARGUMENT and NON-ARGUMENT of nominals, grammatical agreement, and word order types.