8 papers
Status of the XTAG System
Christy Doran, Dania Egedi, Beth Ann Hockey +1
XTAG is an ongoing project to develop a wide-coverage grammar for English, based on the Feature-based Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar (FB-LTAG) formalism. The XTAG system integr…
Constraining Lexical Selection Across Languages Using TAGs
Dania Egedi, Martha Palmer
Lexical selection in Machine Translation consists of several related components. Two that have received a lot of attention are lexical mapping from an underlying concept or lexical…
Determining Determiner Sequencing: A Syntactic Analysis for English
Beth Ann Hockey, Dania Egedi
Previous work on English determiners has primarily concentrated on their semantics or scoping properties rather than their complex ordering behavior. The little work that has been…
A Freely Available Wide Coverage Morphological Analyzer for English
Daniel Karp, Yves Schabes, Martin Zaidel +1
This paper presents a morphological lexicon for English that handles more than 317000 inflected forms derived from over 90000 stems. The lexicon is available in two formats. The fi…
Korean to English Translation Using Synchronous TAGs
Dania Egedi, Martha Palmer, Hyun S. Park +1
It is often argued that accurate machine translation requires reference to contextual knowledge for the correct treatment of linguistic phenomena such as dropped arguments and accu…
Lexicalization and Grammar Development
B. Srinivas, Dania Egedi, Christy Doran +1
In this paper we present a fully lexicalized grammar formalism as a particularly attractive framework for the specification of natural language grammars. We discuss in detail Featu…