Tag Archives: grammar

Semantic dependency relations

I spent the weekend comparing the Stanford parser to RelEx, and learned a lot. RelEx really does deserve to be called a “semantic relation extractor”, and not just a “dependency relation extractor”. It provides a more abstract, more semantic output … Continue reading

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Frequency of grammatical disjuncts

The link-grammar parser uses labeled links to connect together pairs of words.  In order to capture the idea of proper grammatical construction, any given word is only allowed to have very specific links to its right or left: for example, … Continue reading

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Hacking on Link-Grammar

I hack, heads-down, on link-grammar every now and then. Yesterday, I fixed another round of broken parse rules: making sure that sentences like “John is altogether amazingly quick.” “That one is marginally better” “I am done working” “I asked Jim … Continue reading

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