Completing Mixed Language Grammars Through Womb Grammars Plus Ontologies

Ife Adebara, Veronica Dahl, Sergio Tessaris

2015

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.

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Adebara I., Dahl V. and Tessaris S. (2015). Completing Mixed Language Grammars Through Womb Grammars Plus Ontologies . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: PUaNLP, (ICAART 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-073-4, pages 292-297. DOI: 10.5220/0005353202920297


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@conference{puanlp15,
author={Ife Adebara and Veronica Dahl and Sergio Tessaris},
title={Completing Mixed Language Grammars Through Womb Grammars Plus Ontologies},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: PUaNLP, (ICAART 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={292-297},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005353202920297},
isbn={978-989-758-073-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: PUaNLP, (ICAART 2015)
TI - Completing Mixed Language Grammars Through Womb Grammars Plus Ontologies
SN - 978-989-758-073-4
AU - Adebara I.
AU - Dahl V.
AU - Tessaris S.
PY - 2015
SP - 292
EP - 297
DO - 10.5220/0005353202920297