Parsing By Chunks

摘要: I begin with an intuition: when read a sentence, it chunk at time. For example, the previous sentence breaks up something like this: (1) [I begin] [with intuition]: [when read] [a sentence], [I it] chunk] [at time] These chunks correspond in some way to prosodic patterns. It appears, for instance, that strongest stresses fall one chunk, and pauses are most likely between chunks. Chunks also represent grammatical watershed of sorts. The typical consists single content word surrounded by constellation function words, matching fixed template. A simple context-free grammar is quite adequate describe structure By contrast, relationships mediated more lexical selection than rigid templates. Co-occurrence determined not just their syntactic categories, but sensitive precise words head them; order which occur much flexible within