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1 Computational Linguistics CSC 2501 / 485 Fall A 9A. Mildly Context-Sensitive Grammar Formalisms Gerald Penn Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto Based on slides by David Smith, Dan Klein, Stephen Clark and Eva Banik Copyright 2017 Gerald Penn. All rights reserved.

2 Combinatory Categorial Grammar 15

3 Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG) Categorial grammar (CG) is one of the oldest grammar formalisms Combinatory Categorial Grammar now well established and computationally well founded (Steedman, 1996, 2000) Account of syntax; semantics; prodody and information structure; automatic parsers; generation 16

4 Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG) CCG is a lexicalized grammar An elementary syntactic structure for CCG a lexical category is assigned to each word in a sentence walked: S\ give me an to my left and I return a sentence A small number of rules define how categories can combine Rules based on the combinators from Combinatory Logic 17

5 CCG Lexical Categories Atomic categories: S, N,, PP,... (not many more) Complex categories are built recursively from atomic categories and slashes, which indicate the directions of arguments Complex categories encode subcategorisation information intransitive verb: S \ walked transitive verb: (S \ )/ respected ditransitive verb: ((S \ )/ )/ gave Complex categories can encode modification PP nominal: ( \ )/ PP verbal: ((S \ )\(S \ ))/ 18

6 Simple CCG Derivation interleukin 10 inhibits production (S\)/ S S\ > < > forward application < backward application 19

7 Function Application Schemata Forward (>) and backward (<) application: X /Y Y X (>) Y X \Y X (<) 20

8 Classical Categorial Grammar Classical Categorial Grammar only has application rules Classical Categorial Grammar is context free S S\ (S\)/ interleukin-10 inhibits production 21

9 Classical Categorial Grammar Classical Categorial Grammar only has application rules Classical Categorial Grammar is context free S VP V interleukin-10 inhibits production 22

10 Extraction out of a Relative Clause The company which Microsoft bought /N N (\)/(S/) (S\)/ S/(S\) S/ \ > T type-raising > B forward composition Stephen Clark Practical Linguistically Motivated Parsing JHU, June

11 Extraction out of a Relative Clause The company which Microsoft bought /N N (\)/(S/) (S\)/ > T type-raising >T S/(S\) S/ \ Stephen Clark Practical Linguistically Motivated Parsing JHU, June

12 Extraction out of a Relative Clause The company which Microsoft bought /N N (\)/(S/) (S\)/ > T type-raising > B forward composition >T S/(S\) \ S/ >B Stephen Clark Practical Linguistically Motivated Parsing JHU, June

13 Extraction out of a Relative Clause The company which Microsoft bought /N N (\)/(S/) (S\)/ >T S/(S\) S/ >B > \ Stephen Clark Practical Linguistically Motivated Parsing JHU, June

14 Extraction out of a Relative Clause The company which Microsoft bought /N N (\)/(S/) (S\)/ > >T S/(S\) \ S/ < >B > Stephen Clark Practical Linguistically Motivated Parsing JHU, June

15 Forward Composition and Type-Raising Forward composition (> B ): X /Y Y/Z X /Z (> B ) Type-raising (T): X T /(T \X ) (> T ) X T \(T /X ) (< T ) Extra combinatory rules increase the weak generative power to mild context -sensitivity Stephen Clark Practical Linguistically Motivated Parsing JHU, June

16 Non-constituents in ccg Right Node Raising Google sells but Microsoft buys shares (S\)/ conj (S\)/ S/(S\) S/ >T >T > T type-raising S/(S\) S/ S/ S Stephen Clark Practical Linguistically Motivated Parsing JHU, June

17 Non-constituents in ccg Right Node Raising Google sells but Microsoft buys shares (S\)/ conj (S\)/ S/(S\) >T >T S/ > T type-raising > B forward composition S/(S\) >B >B S/ S S/ Stephen Clark Practical Linguistically Motivated Parsing JHU, June

18 Non-constituents in ccg Right Node Raising Google sells but Microsoft buys shares (S\)/ conj (S\)/ S/(S\) >T >T S/ S/(S\) >B >B S/ S S/ <Φ> Stephen Clark Practical Linguistically Motivated Parsing JHU, June

19 Non-constituents in ccg Right Node Raising Google sells but Microsoft buys shares (S\)/ conj (S\)/ S/(S\) >T >T S/ S/(S\) >B >B S/ S S/ <Φ> > Stephen Clark Practical Linguistically Motivated Parsing JHU, June

20 Combinatory Categorial Grammar ccg is mildly context sensitive Natural language is provably non-context free Constructions in Dutch and Swiss German (Shieber, 1985) require more than context free power for their analysis these have crossing dependencies (which ccg can handle) Type 0 languages Context sensitive languages Mildly context sensitive languages = natural languages (?) Context free languages Regular languages Stephen Clark Practical Linguistically Motivated Parsing JHU, June

21 CCG Semantics Categories encode argument sequences Parallel syntactic combinator operations and lambda calculus semantic operations 34

22 CCG Semantics Left arg. Right arg. Operation Result X/Y : f Y : a Forward application X : f(a) Y : a X\Y : f Backward application X : f(a) X/Y : f Y/Z : g Forward composition X/Z : λx.f(g(x)) X : a Type raising T/(T\X) : λf.f(a) etc. 35

23 Tree Adjoining Grammar 36

24 TAG Building Blocks Elementary trees (of many depths) Substitution at Tree Substitution Grammar equivalent to CFG α 3 peanuts α 1 Harry α 2 S VP V likes 37

25 TAG Building Blocks Auxiliary trees for adjunction Adds extra power beyond CFG α 1 Harry α 2 S VP V likes α 3 peanuts β VP VP* Adv passionately 38

26 Derivation Tree Derived Tree α 2 Harry α 1 likes β passionately α 3 peanuts Harry S VP 1 VP 2 V Adv passionately likes peanuts Semantics Harry(x) likes(e, x, y) peanuts(y) passionately(e) 4 39

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