Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammars (LTAG) - ad-teaching.infor...

Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammars (LTAG) - ad-teaching.infor... Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammars (LTAG) - ad-teaching.infor...

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Outline 1 Why CFGs are not enough (for linguists) Generative capacity Lexicalization 2 Introduction to Tree-Adjoining Grammars 3 An Algorithm for Parsing TAGs 4 LTAG-Spinal Parser 8 / 52

Cross-Serial Dependencies Example (Swiss German; Shieber, 1985) b a b a . . . das mer em Hans es huus hälfed aastriiche . . . that we Hans DAT house ACC helped paint ‘. . . that we helped Hans paint the house’ a b a a b a . . . das mer d’chind em Hans es huus lönd hälfe aastriiche . . . that we the children ACC Hans DAT house ACC let help paint ‘. . . that we let the children help Hans paint the house’ This can be reduced to the copy language {ww | w ∈ {a, b} ∗ } which is not context-free. 9 / 52

Outline<br />

1 Why CFGs are not enough (for linguists)<br />

Generative capacity<br />

Lexicalization<br />

2 Introduction to <strong>Tree</strong>-<strong>Adjoining</strong> <strong>Grammars</strong><br />

3 An Algorithm for Parsing TAGs<br />

4 <strong>LTAG</strong>-Spinal Parser<br />

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