Authors:
Ife Adebara
1
;
Veronica Dahl
2
and
Sergio Tessaris
3
Affiliations:
1
Simon Fraser University, Canada
;
2
Simon Fraser University and University of Ulm, Canada
;
3
Free University of Bozen–Bolzano, Italy
Keyword(s):
Self-modifying Grammars, Womb Grammars, Ontologies, Mixed Language Text, Partially Known Grammars, Constraint Acquisition, Universal Language, Parsing, CHRG (Constraint Handling Rule Grammars), Constraint Based Grammars, Property Grammars.
Abstract:
Womb Grammars are a recently introduced constraint-based methodology for acquiring linguistic information on a given language from that of another, implemented in CHRG (Constraint Handling Rule Grammars). This is a position paper that discusses their possible adaptation to multilingual text parsing. In particular, we propose to detect unspecified information with appropriate ontologies. Our proposed methodology exploits the descriptive power of constraints both for defining sentence acceptability and for inferring lexical knowledge from a word’s sentential context, even when foreign.