Thilo Götz

Feature Constraint Grammars


Arbeitspapiere des SFB 340, Bericht Nr. 148 (2000), 150pp.
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Abstract

Ph.D. thesis. Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Tübingen, 1999.

This thesis is concerned with the logical foundations and computational modeling of constraint-based grammar formalisms. By computational modeling I understand the testing of the empirical predictions of a given grammar on a computer. This subsumes, e.g., the parsing problem: given a grammar and a string, does the grammar predict that the string is grammatical, or ungrammatical? The logic under consideration is a typed feature logic, that may be viewed as a basis for formalizing HPSG grammars. The thesis has a dual focus on theory and computation. I give algorithms for solving the prediction problem, and the algorithms are proven correct with respect to the underlying logic.


Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft
Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
Wilhelmstraße 113
72074 Tübingen
Germany