A Development System for Augmented Transition Network Grammars and a Large Grammar for Technical Prose.

Abstract

This report is in two major sections. The first presents a High-Level Grammer Specification Language (HGSL) which greatly simplifies the development of a complex augmented transition network grammar (ATN). A compiler converts HGSL expressions into a transition network which a simple interpreter uses for parsing. The algorithms used by the compiler and interpreter are presented. The second section presents the HGSL for a large grammar for technical prose. The grammar was developed to allow parsing of technical training materials in the draft stage of writing, as part of a computer-based comprehensible writing aid. Some results on the coverage of the grammar are presented to show that the grammer is close to being practically useful.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 15, 1987
Accession Number
ADA179009

Entities

People

  • David Kieras
  • John Mayer

Organizations

  • University of Michigan

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Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Classification
  • Cognition
  • Construction
  • Grammars
  • Instructions
  • Instructors
  • Language
  • Materials
  • Security
  • Standards
  • Syntax
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training
  • United States
  • United States Government

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  • Computational Linguistics