Treebank-based acquisition of a chinese lexical-functional grammar

Proceedings of the 18th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 161-172

  Burke, Michael ^a,b   Lam, Olivia ^c   Cahill, Aoife ^a   Chan, Rowena ^c   O’Donovan, Ruth ^a   Bodomo, Adams ^c   Genabith, Josef van ^a,b   Way, Andy ^a,b  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^b Smarter Cities Technology Centre   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS;

CONSTRAINT BASED GRAMMARS; COVERAGE CONSTRAINTS; F-SCORE; FRAME TYPES; GRAMMATICAL FUNCTIONS; HEAD-DRIVEN PHRASE STRUCTURE GRAMMARS; LEXICAL-FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR; NATURALLY OCCURRING; SCALINGS; TREEBANKS;

FORESTRY;

EID: 28944454915     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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