Dependency Grammar: Classification and Exploration

• Published in: Resource-Adaptive Cognitive Processes pp. 365 - 388
• Main Authors: Debusmann, Ralph, Kuhlmann, Marco
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2010
• Series: Cognitive Technologies
• Subjects: Computational linguistics; Datorlingvistik; Dependency Structure; Dependency Tree; Derivation Tree; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP; HUMANITIES and RELIGION; Language technology; Languages and linguistics; Linguistic subjects; Lingvistikämnen; Parse Tree; Språkteknologi; Språkvetenskap; Word Order
• ISBN: 3540894071; 9783540894070; 9783540894087; 354089408X
• ISSN: 1611-2482
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-89408-7_16

Syntactic representations based on word-to-word dependencies have a long tradition in descriptive linguistics [29]. In recent years, they have also become increasingly used in computational tasks, such as information extraction [5], machine translation [43], and parsing [42]. Among the purported advantages of dependency over phrase structure representations are conciseness, intuitive appeal, and closeness to semantic representations such as predicate-argument structures. On the more practical side, dependency representations are attractive due to the increasing availability of large corpora of dependency analyses, such as the Prague Dependency Treebank [19].