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Computational Grammar of Inverted Constructions in Modern Hebrew

Computational Linguistics Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa

Project description

Objective
To design and implement a computational grammar of a fragment of Modern Hebrew, focusing on inverted constructions.
Researchers
Nurit Melnik
Status
Ongoing
Funding
Israeli Science Foundation (grant 136/01), The Caesarea Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild Foundation Institute for Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer Science and VATAT

Abstract

Verb-initial constructions are those in which the verb appears in a clause-initial position and is followed by the subject. Under the assumption that the default word order in Modern Hebrew is subject-verb-object, this type of a construction is considered inverted.

In my dissertation I provided a formal analysis of verb-initial constructions in the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). An important feature of HPSG, which distinguishes it from competing frameworks, such as Chomsky's Government and Binding theory and its variants, is its underlying mathematical formalism. As such, grammatical theories in HPSG can be implemented and consequently tested against `real' data. The main objective of this project is to develop a computational implementation of the grammar which I have proposed in my dissertation and to test it against `real' corpus data.

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Contact

Mailing address Nurit Melnik
Department of Computer Science
University of Haifa
31905 Haifa, Israel.
Phone +972-4-8288466
Fax +972-4-8249331
E-mail nurit@cs.haifa.ac.il
Computational Linguistics Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa, http://cl.haifa.ac.il/
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