Speaker
Affilliation
Zurich
Abstract
I will present a robust, deep-linguistic parser that combines a hand-written grammar with statistical disambiguation and that keeps search spaces very small. This is achieved by treating most long-distance dependencies in a context-free way, by implementing mild context-sensitivity, by integrating tagging and chunking, and by using functional Dependency Grammar. I will also discuss the close similarities to Lexical-Functional Grammar and Tree Adjoining Grammar. An evaluation of the parser shows that its performance is competitive with the state of the art.