Hello all
Apologies for the urgent tone in the subject ...
Normally I would wait a few days before posting to a new list but my time is
severely constrained. I am finishing my final yr project on the subject of
statistical parsing. I am a computer scientist but my project was set by a
linguist and as such his interest in this project centres around Zellig
Harris's transformational grammar (on which he has published papers at Oxford
university). I have completed most of the project but have found very little
about Harris's grammar and statistical parsers.
Harris was Chomsky's teacher. I am sure that you are all aware that Chomsky
was to discredit the use of corpora but with the use of technology we are
increasingly seeing a convergence between corpus-based linguistics and
Chomskyan formal grammars.
My question is this: Is there a treebank and/or a statistical parser that is
implemented using a Harris style transformational grammar? Where can I find
out about the marriage of the two to ascertain whether this is even of value?
Any help from you experts out there would be greatly appreciated.
TIA
Tony Perretta
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sat Mar 31 2001 - 23:45:46 MET DST