Syntactic-head-driven generation

  • Authors:
  • Esther König

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute for Computational Linguistics, Stuttgart, Germany

  • Venue:
  • COLING '94 Proceedings of the 15th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

The previously proposed semantic -head-driven generation methods run into problems if none of the daughter constituents in the syntacto-semantic rule schemata of a grammar fits the definition of a semantic head given in [Shieber et al., 1990]. This is the case for the semantic analysis rules of certain constraint-based semantic representations, e.g. Underspecified Discourse Representation Structures (UDRSs) [Frank and Reyle, 1992].Since head-driven generation in general has its merits, we simply return to a syntactic definition of 'head' and demonstrate the feasibility of syntaclic-head-driven generation. In addition to its generality, a syntactic-head-driven algorithm provides a basis for a logically well-defined treatment of the movement of (syntactic) heads, for which only ad-hoc solutions existed, so far.