The Parsing System 'Palavras': Automatic Grammatical Analysis

By Eckhard Bick

The Parsing System 'Palavras' is the result of a dissertation project carried out at the University of Aarhus between 1994 and 1999, and describes a Progressive Level Parser ('Palavras') and a Dependency Grammar for Portuguese, both based on the Constraint Grammar paradigm and embedded in extensive corpus research.The text provides a thorough discussion of relevant issues in general and computational linguistics, while at the same time offering a fresh and empirically motivated view on Portuguese grammar. Morphology, syntax and semantics are treated, as well as a number of practical applications, covering corpus annotation, grammar teaching and machine translation. All chapters are richly embroidered with examples, graphics and statistics, and a gentle progression of topics makes the book accessible to a wide range of linguistically interested readers.With a colourful and international collection of academic degrees from the faculties of Medicine and Arts, Eckhard Bick has a solid foundation in both natural science and the humanities, and a refreshingly creative urge to apply methodology from the one discipline to matters of the other. As a linguist and researcher he leads the cross-language VISL project (http: //visl.hum.sdu.dk) which applies the 'Palavras' model of automatic grammatical analysis to a number of other languages, creating internet based electronic lexica, corpora, parsers and language teaching tools.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8772889101
• ISBN13: 9788772889108
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Aarhus University Press
• Length: 412 Pages