19.3 Formal Framework

Our presentation of dependency grammar follows modern linguistic practice: it consists of a lexicon and a collection of principles. Further, it illustrates the expressiveness of set constraints and selection constraints and demonstrates how they can provide elegant encoding and efficient processing of various forms of ambiguity such as lexical and attachement ambiguity.



Denys Duchier, Claire Gardent and Joachim Niehren
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