MATHEMATICAL LINGUISTICS AND AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION

Abstract

Multiple analyses of syntactically ambiguous sentences have been effectively and economically realized by a new extension of the method of predictive syntactic analysis. Branchings caused by homography (membership of a given word form in more than one syntactic word class) and by multiple functions of a given word class are followed in a systematic loop-free sequence in which each partial path is traversed only once. Different paths that reach the last word in a sentence correspond to different acceptable syntactic structures of the sentence. The current grammar for the multiple-path syntactic analyzer is described and listed in full. Brief explanations of the format of the grammar and of the various symbols used in conjunction with it are given in the succeeding section, in order to help readers to understand the grammar.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1963
Accession Number
AD0405063

Entities

People

  • Anthony G. Oettinger

Organizations

  • Harvard University

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Analyzers
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Communication Systems
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Crime
  • Digestive System Processes
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Information Processing
  • Instructors
  • Language
  • Lepidoptera
  • Linguistics
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Linguistics

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.
  • Systems Analysis and Design