Publication
Continuous or Discontinuous Constituents
Stefan Müller
In: Erhard Hinrichs; Detmar Meurers; Shuly Wintner (Hrsg.). Proceedings of the ESSLLI'00 Workshop on Linguistic Theory and Grammar Implementation, August 6-18. European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI), Birmingham, Pages 133-152, 2000.
Abstract
In diesem Aufsatz diskutiere ich verschiedene HPSG-Ansätze zur Beschreibung der Konstituentenstellung im Deutschen. Ansätze, die von kontinuierlichen Konstituenten ausgehen, werden mit einem Ansatz, der diskontinuierliche Konstituenten annimmt, verglichen. Die Anzahl der passiven Kanten, die beim Parsen von 24.602 Äußerungen aus dem Verbmobil-Korpus von der Verbmobil-Grammatik erzeugt werden, werden mit der Anzahl der passiven Kanten verglichen, die die Babel-Grammatik erzeugt In this paper I discuss several possibile analyses for constituent order in German. Approaches that assume continuous constituents are compared with an approach that assumes discontinuous constituents. I will show that certain proposals that have been made to analyze constituent order are either not adequate or cannot be implemented with currently availible systems. For the proposals that can be implementd I will discuss the amount of work a parser has to do. I then compare two implementations of larger fragments of German: the Verbmobil grammar and the Babel grammar. It is shown that the amount of work to be done to parse the Verbmobil grammar is significantly higher then the work that has to be done parsing with the Babel grammar.