GeLexi project: Sentence Parsing Based on a GEnerative LEXIcon1

 Gábor Alberti1, Judit Kleiber1, and Anita Viszket2

  Acta Cybernetica 16 (2004) 587-600.

Abstract:

 The principal aim of our research team3, called GeLexi, is to legitimate a new sort of generative grammar via verifying its computational implementability. This grammar is more radically "lexicalist" than any earlier one: no phrase structure trees are generated, but word order is accounted for by means of ranked parameters. Another novelty is the extension of ``total lexicalism" to morphology: lexical items are assigned not to words but to morphemes. Our parser, in accordance with the basic task of every generative grammar, decides whether a sentence is grammatical, and if it is, then provides a morphophonological analysis, a compilation of grammatical relations, and two kinds of semantic representations. At the end we show some examples to demonstrate our procedures, among them a sentence containing the conjunction és 'and', which is our latest development.

Footnotes

 LEXIcon 1 Presented at the 1st Conference on Hungarian Computational Linguistics, December 10-11, 2003, Szeged.

 Viszket 2 University of Pécs, Faculty of Humanities, Linguistics Department, H7624 Pécs, Ifjúság útja 6., Hungary, e-mail: gelexi@btk.pte.hu

 We are grateful to the Hungarian National Scientific Research Found (OTKA T038386). Further thanks to Kata Balogh, who used to be an active member of the team.