Typed Feature Structure Grammars

by Anders Sogaard (Editor), Petter Haugereid (Editor)

Overview

The articles collected in this volume present different aspects of the use of typed feature structures in theoretical and computational linguistics. It covers a wide range of linguistics theories (CCG, Construction Grammar, HPSG, LTAG), a wide range of linguistic phenomena (aspect, concord, idioms, passive), and a wide range of applications (parsing, question answering, semantic composition).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631575505
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	04/27/2009
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

The Editors: Anders Søgaard received his Ph.D. from the University of Copenhagen in 2007. He was awarded the Elite Research Scholarship 2006. He is now a researcher at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Potsdam.
Petter Haugereid is a Ph.D. fellow and lecturer at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has developed two wide-coverage typed feature structure grammars for Norwegian.

Table of Contents

Contents: Anders Søgaard/Petter Haugereid: Introduction – Anders Søgaard: From unordered context-free grammar to polysize HPSG without moving – Frank Richter/Laura Kallmeyer: Feature logic-based semantic composition: a comparison between LRS and LTAG – Mark McConville: Inheritance-based Combinatory Categorial Grammar – Anne Bjerre/Tavs Bjerre: Sidder og…: Constructional aspect in Danish – Maria Flouraki: Aspectual composition in Minimal Recursion Semantics – Petter Haugereid: A constructional approach to syntax and the treatment of passive in Norwegian – Patrizia Paggio/Dorte Haltrup Hansen/Lene Offersgaard: Ontology-based question-answering with feature structures.