Chapter 3 Contents

• 3 Language Analysis and Understanding
  • 3.1 Overview
  • 3.2 Sub-Sentential Processing
    • 3.2.1 Morphological Analysis
    • 3.2.2 Morphological Disambiguation
    • 3.2.3 Shallow Parsing
    • 3.2.4 Future Directions
  • 3.3 Grammar Formalisms
  • 3.4 Lexicons for Constraint-Based Grammars
  • 3.5 Semantics
    • 3.5.1 Basic Notions of Semantics
    • 3.5.2 Practical Applications of Semantics
    • 3.5.3 Development of Semantic Theory
    • 3.5.4 Discourse Representation Theory
    • 3.5.5 Dynamic Semantics
    • 3.5.6 Situation Semantics and Property Theory
    • 3.5.7 Implementations
    • 3.5.8 Future Directions
  • 3.6 Sentence Modeling and Parsing
    • 3.6.1 Grammars and Derivations
    • 3.6.2 Precision versus Coverage
    • 3.6.3 Search Space and Search Procedure
      • Search Space Structure
      • Search Exhaustiveness
    • 3.6.4 Grammar Classes
      • Linguistic Grammars
        • Coverage:
        • Predictive Power:
        • Computational Requirements:
      • Task-Oriented Grammars
      • Data-Oriented Grammars
    • 3.6.5 Evaluating Derivations
    • 3.6.6 Future Directions
  • 3.7 Robust Parsing
• 3.8 References