Deterministic Parsing and Linguistic Explanation. Revision,

Abstract

Contents: This article summarizes and extends recent results linking deterministic parsing to observed (locality principles) in syntax. It also argues that grammatical theories based on explicit phrase structure rules are unlikely to provide comparable explanations of why natural languages are built the way they are. Originator-supplied keywords: Natural language processing; Parsing; Cognitive modeling.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA159233

Entities

People

  • A. S. Weinberg
  • R. C. Berwick

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Computer Science
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Automata
  • Cognition
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Computational Processes
  • Computations
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Grammars
  • Information Processing
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Natural Languages
  • Psychology

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  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Machine Translation