ON THE VALUE OF A DEPENDENCY CONNECTION

Abstract

In sentence-structure determination, values are tentatively defined as numbers assigned to types of syntactic relations in such a way that connections of higher value are established in preference to connections of lower value. For a text in which sentence structures are known, the values of some syntactic relations can be estimated by the following plan: assign value 1 to a relation provided no relation is known to have lower value; assign value 2 to a relation provided all relations known to have lower value are also known to have value 1; etc. The same procedure can be used for assigning adjectives to order classes, and for other similar purposes. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 20, 1961
Accession Number
AD0257286

Entities

People

  • David G. Hays

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Regression Analysis.