Universität Bielefeld - Sonderforschungsbereich 360

Verarbeitung von Präpositonalsphrasen in der
Combinatory Categorial Grammar.

Bernd Hildebrandt und Gert Rickheit

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Abstract

A grammar formalism for a speech understanding system that follows the principles of cognitive speech processing must at least be able to make possible incremental and interactive processing. We take the attachment of prepositional phrases as an example to demonstrate that Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG) meets the cognitive demands. In addition the particular stages in processing can be represented in a transparent way by means of derivational structures. The accuracy achieved by CCG leads to hypotheses about the processes of understanding that depend on the lexical categories of a word. Furthermore, a distinction between incrementality based on words and incrementality based on constituents is suggested.
Anke Weinberger, 1998-10-20