Abstract
Modern grammar development platforms often support multiple devices for representing
properties of a natural language, giving the grammar writer some freedom in implementing
analyses of linguistic phenomena. These design alternatives can have dramatic consequences
for efficiency both in processing and in grammar building. In this paper I report on three
experiments in making systematic modifications to a broad-coverage grammar of English
in order to gain efficiency without loss of linguistic elegance. While the experiments are to
some degree both platform-dependant and theory-bound, the kinds of modifications reported
should be applicable to any unification-based grammar which makes use of types. The results
make a strong case for a more visible role for the linguist in the collaborative effort to achieve
greater processing efficiency.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Artificial Intelligence,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics,Software
Cited by
43 articles.
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