Open AccessA description of Chinese NPs using Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
Author(s) -
Lulu Wang,
Haitao Liu
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
proceedings of the international conference on head-driven phrase structure grammar
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1535-1793
DOI - 10.21248/hpsg.2007.17
Subject(s) - head driven phrase structure grammar , computer science , noun phrase , grammar , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , phrase structure grammar , classifier (uml) , generalized phrase structure grammar , noun , phrase structure rules , generative grammar , linguistics , emergent grammar , rule based machine translation , relational grammar , philosophy , context free grammar
This paper aims at making a general description of Chinese NPs using Head-Driven Phrase StructureGrammar. The paper introduces the basic and complex structures of Chinese NPs and then shed light onthe noun-classifier matching problem when implemented in HPSG. To solve this problem, the papertries to establish a basic grammar of Chinese NPs in the framework of HPSG, which is implemented inthe LKB system. The implementation shows, although the matching problem between noun and classifiercan be described in HPSG, especially by the MRS, it is still difficult to efficiently represent thesemantic constrains in the LKB system.