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Developing a Minimalist Parser for Free Word Order Languages with Discontinuous Constituency

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Advances in Natural Language Processing (EsTAL 2004)

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We propose a parser based on ideas from the Minimalist Programme. The parser supports free word order languages and simulates a human listener who necessarily begins sentence analysis before all the words in the sentence have become available. We first sketch the problems that free word order languages pose. Next we discuss an existing framework for minimalist parsing, and show how it is difficult to make it work for free word order languages and simulate realistic syntactic conditions. We briefly describe a formalism and a parsing algorithm that elegantly overcome these difficulties, and we illustrate them with detailed examples from Latin, a language whose word order freedom causes it to exhibit seemingly difficult discontinuous noun phrase situations.

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  1. School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada

    Asad B. Sayeed & Stan Szpakowicz

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  1. Department of Software and Computing Systems, University of Alicante, Spain

    José Luis Vicedo

  2. Natural Language Processing and Information Systems Group, Department of Software and Computing Systems, University of Alicante, Spain

    Patricio Martínez-Barco

  3. Grupo de investigación del Procesamiento del Lenguaje y Sistemas de Información, Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain

    Rafael Muńoz

  4. Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Carretera de San Vicente del Raspeig, Universidad de Alicante, 03690 San Vicente del Raspeig, Alicante, Spain

    Maximiliano Saiz Noeda

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Sayeed, A.B., Szpakowicz, S. (2004). Developing a Minimalist Parser for Free Word Order Languages with Discontinuous Constituency. In: Vicedo, J.L., Martínez-Barco, P., Muńoz, R., Saiz Noeda, M. (eds) Advances in Natural Language Processing. EsTAL 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3230. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30228-5_11

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