{ "paper_id": "W98-0141", "header": { "generated_with": "S2ORC 1.0.0", "date_generated": "2023-01-19T06:03:09.388748Z" }, "title": "Translating the XTAG English Grammar to HPSG", "authors": [ { "first": "Yuka", "middle": [], "last": "Tateisit", "suffix": "", "affiliation": { "laboratory": "", "institution": "UMIST' u. K", "location": {} }, "email": "" }, { "first": "Kentaro", "middle": [], "last": "Torisawat", "suffix": "", "affiliation": { "laboratory": "", "institution": "UMIST' u. K", "location": {} }, "email": "" }, { "first": "Yusuke", "middle": [], "last": "Miyaot", "suffix": "", "affiliation": { "laboratory": "", "institution": "UMIST' u. K", "location": {} }, "email": "" }, { "first": "Jun", "middle": [ "'" ], "last": "Ichi", "suffix": "", "affiliation": { "laboratory": "", "institution": "UMIST' u. K", "location": {} }, "email": "" } ], "year": "", "venue": null, "identifiers": {}, "abstract": "", "pdf_parse": { "paper_id": "W98-0141", "_pdf_hash": "", "abstract": [], "body_text": [ { "text": "We describe the development of XHPSG, a large-scale English grammar in the HPSG formalism translated from the XTAG grammar (The XTAG Research Group, 1995) . Our goal is to obtain a large-scale, linguistically sound grammar for our HPSG parser (Makino et al\" 1998) with a relatively small workload. For this purpose, we try to make an HPSG grammar equivalent to the XTAG grammar in the strong sense where we preserve the structures and the linguistic analysis of the XTAG grammar.", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 123, "end": 154, "text": "(The XTAG Research Group, 1995)", "ref_id": "BIBREF5" } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "To guarantee the equivalence of the XHPSG and XTAG grammars, the following conditions must be satisfied: 1) An XTAG elementary tree is translated to an XHPSG lexical item that translates back to the original elementary tree by applying the schemata and principles; 2) No XHPSG lexical item translates back to a tree other than the original XTAG elementary tree; 3) Substitution and adjunction allowed in the original grarnmar, and no other opeations, are simulated in the XHPSG parsing.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "We not only use the HPSG formalism to express the linguistic analyses of the XTAG grammar, but also preserve, as much as possible, the general framework of the linguistic analyses given in the standard HPSG (Pollard and Sag, 1994) . We use the standard HPSG schemata and the principles that are concerned with syntax, and translate the XTAG elementary trees into lexical feature structures so that they satisfy the conditions 1), 2) and 3) with them. Given that the XTAG features are used for controlling the substitution and adjunction, the condition 3) is reduced to the problem of whether or not all the XTAG features can be rnapped to HPSG feature structures so that their values are properly propageted by the application of those schemata and principles.", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 207, "end": 230, "text": "(Pollard and Sag, 1994)", "ref_id": "BIBREF4" } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "vVe start with the standard HPSG feature structure and schemata 1 with slight modification and addition. As for principles, we use phonology-, head-feature-, valence-, non-local feature-, specand marker-principles.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Translation", "sec_num": "2" }, { "text": "We separate the translations to two steps. First, we translate the tree structure of elementary trees to HPSG feature structures. Second, we map the XTAG feature into the HPSG structure.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Translation", "sec_num": "2" }, { "text": "In most initial trees, labels of the nodes on the trunk (the path from the anchor to the root) are the projections of that of the lexical anchor. On the other hand, in HPSG, labels are expressed by apart ofthe HEAD and the VALENCE features. The HEAD feature corresponds to the projection of a category. For example, VP is expressed as a structure whose HEAD is verb and COMPS is saturated and S is expressed as a structure whose HEAD is verb and both COMPS and SUBJ is saturated (Figure 1 ). Thus, if no features are concerned, the nodes on the trunk corresponds to the HEAD feature 2 and we can construct the lexical feature structure corresponding to an initial tree by translating the label of the nodcs on 1 ReCer to (Pollard and Sag, 1994) Ior the meaning oC the standard HPSG Ceatures and schemata: We use the following abbreviations for feature names: SS=SYllSEH, LOC=LDCAL, NONLDC=NDNLOCAL, VAL=VALENCE, HARK=HARKING.", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 721, "end": 744, "text": "(Pollard and Sag, 1994)", "ref_id": "BIBREF4" } ], "ref_spans": [ { "start": 479, "end": 488, "text": "(Figure 1", "ref_id": null } ], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Translation of the tree structure", "sec_num": "2.1" }, { "text": "'\"\"'[:", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Translation of the tree structure", "sec_num": "2.1" }, { "text": "5 ll 0J ..._ S ssJLOCICA111UJl verb J A / w..i.rs.,.,, l\u2022\u2022l] NP VP l.!:aas IJ S$ILOCICATtHV.ll verb J /\"-,_ w..i.rstl8J C\u2022\u2022iJ ---v", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Translation of the tree structure", "sec_num": "2.1" }, { "text": "Lco.>s !In NP Figure 1 : Correspondence between node labels and feature structures the trunk into the HEAD features and rernaining nodes into SUBJ, COMPS or SLASH features according to the syntactic role of the nodes.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [ { "start": 14, "end": 22, "text": "Figure 1", "ref_id": null } ], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Translation of the tree structure", "sec_num": "2.1" }, { "text": "For exarnple, a1 in Fig 2 shows the tree for a transitive verb like. As an HPSG scherna cor- responds to one branching of the tree, the tree can be re-constructed if a proper schema is selected for each branching. In this case, applying head-cornplement, and head-subject in this order will restore the shape of a tree and properly project the information contained in the anchor to the root of the tree 3 \u2022", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [ { "start": 20, "end": 25, "text": "Fig 2", "ref_id": "FIGREF0" } ], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Translation of the tree structure", "sec_num": "2.1" }, { "text": "LTl\\G ol s-. Jubjtct/'-., ~ Nil> VP 1\u00c4 1 V NPt HPSG S (_ lil", "html": null, "text": "Propagation of HPSG features", "num": null, "type_str": "table" }, "TABREF2": { "content": "
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5 Conclusion and Future Work
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