A Quantification Model of Grammaticality

Philippe Blache (1) , Jean-Philippe Prost (1, 2)

1 LPL - Laboratoire Parole et Langage
2 CLT - Centre for Language Technology

The traditional binary notion of grammaticality is more and more often replaced by intermediate levels of acceptability, also called \em gradience. This paper aims to provide a numerical account of syntactic gradience. It introduces and investigates a numerical model with which acceptability can be predicted by factors derivable from the output of a parser. Its performance is compared to other experiments, and the fit of each model is evaluated. Our model shows a good correlation with human judgement of acceptability.

Domaines: Informatique et langage [cs.CL]; Traitement du texte et du document

Philippe Blache, Jean-Philippe Prost. A Quantification Model of Grammaticality. Fifth International Workshop on Constraints and Language Processing (CSLP2008), Aug 2008, Hambourg, Germany. pp.5--19. ⟨hal-00468020⟩