Partially specified signatures: A vehicle for grammar modularity

Yael Cohen-Sygal, Shuly Wintner

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Abstract

This work provides the essential foundations for modular construction of (typed) unification grammars for natural languages. Much of the information in such grammars is encoded in the signature, and hence the key is facilitating a modularized development of type signatures. We introduce a definition of signature modules and show how two modules combine. Our definitions are motivated by the actual needs of grammar developers obtained through a careful examination of large scale grammars. We show that our definitions meet these needs by conforming to a detailed set of desiderata.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCOLING/ACL 2006 - 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference
Pages145-152
Number of pages8
StatePublished - 2006
Event21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, COLING/ACL 2006 - Sydney, NSW, Australia
Duration: 17 Jul 200621 Jul 2006

Publication series

NameCOLING/ACL 2006 - 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference
Volume1

Conference

Conference21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, COLING/ACL 2006
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CitySydney, NSW
Period17/07/0621/07/06

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Linguistics and Language

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