Burke, Michael, Cahill, Aoife ORCID: 0000-0002-3519-7726, O'Donovan, Ruth, van Genabith, Josef and Way, Andy ORCID: 0000-0001-5736-5930 (2004) Treebank-based acquisition of wide-coverage, probabilistic LFG resources: project overview, results and evaluation. In: IJCNLP-04 Workshop - The First International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 21 March 2004, Sanya City, Hainan Island, China.
Abstract
This paper presents an overview of a project to acquire wide-coverage, probabilistic Lexical-Functional Grammar
(LFG) resources from treebanks. Our approach is based on an automatic annotation algorithm that annotates “raw” treebank trees with LFG f-structure information approximating to basic predicate-argument/dependency structure. From the f-structure-annotated treebank
we extract probabilistic unification grammar resources. We present the annotation algorithm, the extraction of
lexical information and the acquisition of wide-coverage and robust PCFG-based LFG approximations including
long-distance dependency resolution.
We show how the methodology can be applied to multilingual, treebank-based unification grammar acquisition. Finally
we show how simple (quasi-)logical forms can be derived automatically from the f-structures generated for the treebank trees.
Metadata
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Event Type: | Workshop |
Refereed: | Yes |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | lexical-functional grammar; |
Subjects: | Computer Science > Machine translating |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | Research Institutes and Centres > National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT) DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing |
Official URL: | http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/bsa/ |
Use License: | This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License |
Funders: | Enterprise Ireland, EI SC/2001/186, Irish Research Council for Science Engineering and Technology |
ID Code: | 15302 |
Deposited On: | 15 Mar 2010 11:11 by DORAS Administrator . Last Modified 25 Jan 2019 11:41 |
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