Title
A Bottom-Up Design and Implementation for Ambiguity-Compatible Natural Language Sentence Parsing
Date of Award
4-20-2011
Document Type
Thesis open access
Abstract
Although many theory-focused computer science textbooks give a brief outline of a context-free grammar model of natural language, the approach is often vague and, in reality, greatly simplifies the English language’s grammatical complexities. When applied to commonly-seen sentences, these sentence parsing models often fall short. In this paper, I detail my process of creating a programmable natural language context-free grammar that is able to parse (i.e. diagram) many common sentence forms, as well as the research which influenced the design of this project. In order to create a grammar that recognized the intricacies of the English language, I also incorporated the ability to identify and represent ambiguous sentences into my program. While the resulting program is not able to correctly parse every possible English sentence, ambiguous or not, it does function as an introduction to the field of computational linguistics and the difficulties present in this field.
Recommended Citation
Thrasher, Elise, "A Bottom-Up Design and Implementation for Ambiguity-Compatible Natural Language Sentence Parsing" (2011). Computer Science Honors Theses. 26.
https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/compsci_honors/26
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