Specifying a shallow grammatical representation for parsing purposes

Is it possible to specify a grammatical representation (descriptors and their application guidelines) to such a degree that it can be consistently applied by different grammarians e.g. for producing a benchmark corpus for parser evaluation? Arguments for and against have been given, but very little empirical evidence. In this article we report on a double-blind experiment with a surface-oriented morphosyntactic grammatical representation used in a large-scale English parser. We argue that a consistently applicable representation for morphology and also shallow syntax can be specified. A grammatical representation with a near-100% coverage of running text can be specified with a reasonable effort, especially if the representation is based on structural distinctions (i.e. it is structurally resolvable).

• Publication year

  1995

• Venue

  Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

• Publication date

  1995-02-13

• Fields of study

  Linguistics, Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3115/976973.977003arXiv cmp-lg/9502011
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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