LINGUIST List 20.125

Wed Jan 14 2009

Diss: Comp Ling: Gobbo: 'Adpositional Grammars'

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        1.    Federico Gobbo, Adpositional Grammars

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Message 1: Adpositional Grammars
Date: 14-Jan-2009
From: Federico Gobbo <federico.gobbouninsubria.it>
Subject: Adpositional Grammars
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Institution: Università degli Studi dell'Insubria Program: Computer Science Dissertation Status: Completed Degree Date: 2009

Author: Federico Gobbo

Dissertation Title: Adpositional Grammars

Dissertation URL: http://federicogobbo.wordpress.com/phd/

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science Computational Linguistics Linguistic Theories

Dissertation Director(s): Marco Benini Fabrizio Angelo Pennacchietti Gaetano Aurelio Lanzarone

Dissertation Abstract:

In the field of computational linguistics, the representation of natural languages (NL) in formal grammar terms is a well-known issue and a wicked problem indeed. In fact, some formal grammars lack lexical and semantic information representation, reducing the linguistic structure to syntax. On the other side, approaches like dependency grammars lose expressive power, under a computational point of view. Adpositional grammars (adgrams) are a novel grammar formalism that overcomes these limitations.

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