A binding rule for Government-binding parsing

  • Authors:
  • Nelson Correa

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY

  • Venue:
  • COLING '88 Proceedings of the 12th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

In this paper I propose a Binding rule for the identification of pronoun and anaphor referents in phrase-structure tress, assuming the general framework of the Government-binding theory outlined by Chomsky (1981). The Binding rule, specified by means of an attribute grammar, is a particular instantiation of the Free Indexing rule and binding axioms in Chomsky's Binding theory, with certain empirical and practical advantages. The complexities of the Binding rule proposed, as well as that inherent in Chomsky's Binding theory, are studied, and it is shown that the new rule is more psychologically plausible and computationally efficient than the original theory on which it is based. The fragment of the attribute grammar shown here is part of an English grammar and parser being developed in the Prolog and PLNLP languages.