Subcategorization in register vector grammar

Glenn David Blank; Carmel J. Owens

doi:10.1117/12.21106

1 January 1990 Subcategorization in register vector grammar

Glenn David Blank, Carmel J. Owens

Proceedings Volume 1293, Applications of Artificial Intelligence VIII; (1990) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.21106
Event: 1990 Technical Symposium on Optics, Electro-Optics, and Sensors, 1990, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

Subcategorization enables each word to determine what type of complements it can take. For example, put takes an object plus a locative phrase; one can say I put the cat on my lap but not I put the cat nor I put on my lap. Subcategorization often involves discontinuous constraints (e.g., put and on my lap are discontinuous), which complicates overly sequential syntactic formalisms such as phrase structure rules or transition diagrams. Register Vector Grammar (RVG) is a formalism designed to model discontinuous constraints efficiently. By avoiding redundancy in the number of categories or rules, it keeps grammar size small. By insisting on fixed, finite resources for non-detenninism, it processes sentences in linear time. We haved extended RVG so that it represents subcategories in a manner that, rather than increase computational complexity, actually improves the performance of grammars.

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Glenn David Blank and Carmel J. Owens "Subcategorization in register vector grammar", Proc. SPIE 1293, Applications of Artificial Intelligence VIII, (1 January 1990); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.21106

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