Unification Grammars
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Unification Grammars

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Unification Grammars

About this book

Grammars of natural languages can be expressed as mathematical objects, similar to computer programs. Such a formal presentation of grammars facilitates mathematical reasoning with grammars (and the languages they denote), as well as computational implementation of grammar processors. This book presents one of the most commonly used grammatical formalisms, Unification Grammars, which underlies contemporary linguistic theories such as Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) and Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). The book provides a robust and rigorous exposition of the formalism that is both mathematically well-founded and linguistically motivated. While the material is presented formally, and much of the text is mathematically oriented, a core chapter of the book addresses linguistic applications and the implementation of several linguistic insights in unification grammars. Dozens of examples and numerous exercises (many with solutions) illustrate key points. Graduate students and researchers in both computer science and linguistics will find this book a valuable resource.

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Yes, you can access Unification Grammars by Nissim Francez,Shuly Wintner in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Computer Science & Programming Languages. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Unification Grammars
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgment
  9. 1 Introduction
  10. 2 Feature structures
  11. 3 Unification
  12. 4 Unification grammars
  13. 5 Linguistic applications
  14. 6 Computational aspects of unification grammars
  15. 7 Conclusion
  16. Appendix A List of Symbols
  17. Appendix B Preliminary mathematical notions
  18. Appendix C Solutions to selected exercises
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index