19.2 The Big Picture

What are you supposed to learn in this chapter? First, you don't have to be a fan of dependency parsing in order to benefit from the material here. You could take these ideas and techniques and apply them to HPSG for example, and that would be a wonderful project... or you might apply them to molecular biology, perhaps. To help you keep ``the big picture'' in perspective, we now review briefly the more important points worth learning.

• 19.2.1 Model Generation vs Model Elimination

• 19.2.2 Finite Formulations

• 19.2.3 Sets Are Wonderful

• 19.2.4 Modelization Techniques
  • Partial vs Total Functions