A Bootstrap Method for Constructing Local Grammars

Maurice Gross (1)

1 LADL - Laboratoire d'automatique documentaire et linguistique

Local grammars are finite-state grammars or finite-state automata that represent sets of utterances of a natural language.

Local grammars have been used to describe a wide variety of sets of strings, ranging from finite sets of words related by prefixation and suffixation to sets of sentences syntactically and semantically related. Formal representations of finite-state grammars are quite varied, although equivalent. We have chosen a particular representation by graphs which is well-adapted to the syntax of natural languages. Using a particular example, we will present in detail a method for constructing local grammars using large corpora.

Keywords: syntax; local grammar; finite automaton; corpus; syntaxe; grammaire locale; automate fini

Domains: Linguistics; Document and Text Processing

Maurice Gross. A Bootstrap Method for Constructing Local Grammars. Neda Bokan. Proceedings of the Symposium on Contemporary Mathematics, University of Belgrad, pp.229-250, 1999. ⟨halshs-00278319⟩