[antlr-interest] philosophy about translation

[Peter Paulus]

Hi Terence and Andy,

Just as an annotation of natural language transformations.

Not that I'm an expert on this - just an interested layman - but it  
could be interesting to read up on X-bar theory (http:// 
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-bar_theory, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 
Category:Syntactic_relationships), Government and binding theory  
(http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Government-Blackwell-Textbooks- 
Linguistics/dp/0631190678) and Principles and Parameters (http:// 
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principles_and_parameters, http:// 
www.amazon.com/Introducing-Transformational-Grammar-Principles- 
Parameters/dp/0340740361, Cullicover, Peter W. 1997. Principles and  
Parameters: An Introduction to Syntactic Theory. Oxford: Oxford  
University Press., http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/? 
ci=9780198700142). I've read parts of the last book.

With kind regards,
Peter Paulus

On Oct 6, 2006, at 8:33 PM, Terence Parr wrote:
>
>> I guess what I'm doing is more akin to natural language  
>> translation. I'm sure an English to
>> Spanish translator has relatively little logic that does tree  
>> transformation (e.g. putting the
>> adjectives *after* the nouns).
>>
>
>  an interesting analogy.  You are saying that language translation  
> is mostly word for word change and some grammatical changes such as  
> you would see from English to German where the verb's at the end.
>
> Hmm....  Do you have multiple phases also, just declarative rule  
> replacement style?
>
> Ter
>

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