Generation and Parsing in Optimality Theoretic Syntax - Issues in the Formalization of OT-LFG (2000)
| Venue: | Formal and Empirical Issues in Optimality-theoretic Syntax |
| Citations: | 9 - 4 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Kuhn00generationand,
author = {Jonas Kuhn},
title = {Generation and Parsing in Optimality Theoretic Syntax - Issues in the Formalization of OT-LFG},
booktitle = {Formal and Empirical Issues in Optimality-theoretic Syntax},
year = {2000},
pages = {313--366},
publisher = {CSLI Publications}
}
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Abstract
This paper addresses the application of Optimality Theory (OT) in syntax from a computational point of view. The denition of a processing model for OT syntax presupposes a formalization of the notions involved. Here, the work on an OT account based on Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) can be used as a basis. In order to guarantee that the processing tasks of generation and parsing with an OT grammar are decidable and computationally tractable, certain restrictions have to be imposed on the formalism. The goal of a computational OT approach is to arrive at a sufficiently restricted formalism that is nevertheless expressive enough to capture the intuitions behind the linguistic OT accounts.
