A PC-PATR-Based syntactic description of modern Greek

This paper presents an implementation of a syntactic parser for the Modern Greek language based on the PC-PATR formalism. The Modern Greek language presents a high flexibility in its syntactic structure. The various phrasal categories (noun phrases, verb phrases, prepositional, and adverbial phrases...

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Published in:	Literary and linguistic computing Vol. 15; no. 3; pp. 291 - 312
Main Authors:	Kermanidis, KLT, Sgarbas, KN, Fakotakis, ND, Kokkinakis, GK
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford Oxford University Press 2000
Subjects:	Applied linguistics Computational linguistics Linguistics Natural language processing Computational linguistics Word order Applied linguistics Automatic analysis Syntax
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Summary:	This paper presents an implementation of a syntactic parser for the Modern Greek language based on the PC-PATR formalism. The Modern Greek language presents a high flexibility in its syntactic structure. The various phrasal categories (noun phrases, verb phrases, prepositional, and adverbial phrases) can be ordered in almost any permutation so as to build valid sentences. The allowable combinations of lexical categories (nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.) forming the above phrases, as well as the combinations of these phrases, forming clauses, are encoded according to the PC-PATR formalism and are presented in this paper. The presented rules cover the majority of the syntactic phenomena of the Modern Greek language, adequate for speech and natural language applications.
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ISSN:	0268-1145 1477-4615
DOI:	10.1093/llc/15.3.291