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"abstract": "By generalizing the notion of location of a constituent to allow discontinuous Ioctaions, one can describe the discontinuous constituents of non-configurational languages. These discontinuous constituents can be described by a variant of definite clause grammars, and these grammars can be used in conjunction with a proof procedure to create a parser for non-configurational languages.",
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"text": "In this paper [ discuss the problem of describing and computationally processing the discontinuous constituents of nonconfigurational languages. In these languages the grammatical function that an argument plays in the clause or the sentence is not determined by its position or confguration in the sentence, as it is in configurational languages like English, but rather by some kind of morphological marking on tile argument or on the verb. Word order in non-configurational languages is often extremely free: it has been claimed that if some string of words S is grammatical in one of these languages, then the string S' formed by any arbitrary permutation of the words in S is also grammatical. Most attempts to describe this word order freedom take mechanisms designed to handle fairly rigid word order systems and modify them in order to account for the greater word order freedom of non-configurational languages. .Mthough it is doubtful whether any natural language ever exhibits such total scrambling, it is interesting to investigate the computational and linguistic implications of systems that allow a ifigh degree of word order freedom. So the approach here is the opposite to the usual one: I start with a system which, unconstrained, allows for unrestricted permutation of the words of a sentence, and capture any word order regularities the language may have by adding restrictions to the system. The extremely free word order of nonconfigurational languages is described by allowing constituents to have discontinuous [ocatio,ls. To demonstrate that it is possible to parse with such discontinuous constituents. I show how they can be incorporated into a variant of definite clause grammars, and that these grammars can be used in conjunction with a proof procedure. such as Ear[ey deduction, to coestruct a parser, a.s shown in Pereira and Warren (1983) . This paper is organized as follows: section 2 contains an informal introduction to Definite Clause Grammars and ,lisctmses how they can be used in parsing, section :l giws a brief description of some of the grammatical features of o**o non-,'onligurational language. Guugu Yimhlhirr, section I presents ;t deiinite clause fragment for this language, aml shows how this can be u~ed for parsing. Section 5 notes that the use of di~conti*uiot*s con.~l.ituent.~ is *lot limited to definite clause granunars. [)lit they could lie incorporated into such disparate formalisnts as GP~ (; , I, FG or ('; [L Section 6 discusses whether a unified account of par.qng both conligurational and non-configurational languages can be given, and section 7 compares the notion of discontinuous constituents with other approaches to free word order.",
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"text": "The subscripts in (2} serve to locate the lexical items: they indicate that, for instance, the utterance of the word d0~ began at time t s and ended at time t s. That is, the location of the utterance \"dog\" in example (2) was the interval (t~,tsl. [ interpret the subscripts aa the points in time that segment the utterance into individual words or morphemes. Note that they perform the same function as the vertices of a standard chart parsing system. Parsing {2} is the same as searching for an S node that dominates the entire string, ie. whose location is [0,6!. By looking at the rules in {I), we see that an S node is composed of an NP and a VP node. The interpretation conventions associated with phrase structure rules like those in (I) tell us this, and also tell us that the location of the S is the concatenation of the location of tile NP and the VP. That is, tile existence of an S node located at i0.t~! would be implied by the existetlce of an NP node located at interval r O.z i ( z a variable) and a V'P node located at [: ,8 t. The relationship between the mother constituent's location anti those of its daughters is made explicit in the definite clause grauunar, .~hown in (3}, that corresponds to the CFG (l}. The utterante (1) (after lexical analysis} would be represented as in (4). Those familiar with Prolog should note that [ [lave reversed the usual orthographic convention by writing variables with a lower ca~e intial letter (they are also italicized), while constants begin with an upper case letter. ",
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"text": "Unfortunately, despite their intuitive simplicity, top down recursive descent parsers have certain properties that make them less than optimal for handling natural language phenomena. Unless the grammar the parser is using is very specially crafted, these parsers tend to go into infinite loops. For example, the rule that expands NP into Det and N in (3) above would be used by a topdown parser to create a Det subgoal from an NP goal. But Det Ltself can be expanded as a genitive NP, so the parser would create another NP subgual from the Det subgoal, and so on infinitely.",
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"text": "The problem is that the parser is searching for the same [NP many times over: what is needed is a strategy that reduces multiple searches for the same item to a single search, and arranges to share its results. Eariey deduction, based on the Eariey parsing algorithm. is capable of doing this. For reasons of time, I won't go into details of Eariey Deduction (see Pereira and Warren (1983) for details}; [ will simply note here that using Eariey Deduction on the definite clause grammar in {3) results in behaviour that corresponds exactly to the way an Earley chart parser wouhl parse ( I ).",
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"text": "Suppose, for example, Guugu Yimidhirr allowed stacked NP poeseesors, in the same way that English allows them in constructions like my mother's lather'8 brother, except that, because the language is non-conFigurational, the lexical elements could be scattered throughout the entire sentence. The LFG analysis would run into problems here, because there would be a potentially infinite number of positions in the f-structure where the possessor could be located: implying that there are an infinite number of lexical entries for each poaae~ive NP.",
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