[antlr-interest] philosophy about translation
Peter Paulus
peter.paulus at nerocmediaware.nl
Mon Oct 9 01:37:00 PDT 2006
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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