Monday, January 15, 2007
What does that mean?
Using a Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar is working out well. I've been able to code the generation of quite a few different semantic patterns and have been able to organize them into grammars. This requires a lot more analytic work (identifying nouns as concrete or abstract in the database, specifying transitiveness for verbs, words that need their own lexicalizing nodes, and so forth), but that's an evolving answer--as grammatical problems expose themselves, just respond, either by changing a lexical entry's attributes or the definition of the appropriate tree. "Grammaticalness" in ALG systems that look to range in semantics over the full range of the English language becomes a solved problem, one that has consumed much of our time in working out our designs. (And for many of us, the only part of the problem we've been attacking.)
We can now turn our attention to making these Frankensteinian monsters mean something. We're getting there. Oh lousy poets, be afraid, be very afraid.
# posted by Jim @ 8:25 AM 
