Year: 1988
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The formal device of functional uncertainty has been introduced into linguistic theory as a means of characterizing long-distance dependencies alternative to conventional phrase-structure based approaches. In this paper we briefly outline the uncertainty concept, and then present an algorithm for determining the satisfiability of acyclic grammatical descriptions containing uncertainty expressions and for synthesizing the grammatically relevant solutions to those descriptions.
Authors: Ronald M. Kaplan, John T. Maxwell
Institution: Palo Alto Research Center
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2093584016