Generating Context-Appropriate Word Orders in Turkish

dc.creatorHoffman, Beryl
dc.date1994-07-20
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dc.descriptionTurkish has considerably freer word order than English. The interpretations of different word orders in Turkish rely on information that describes how a sentence relates to its discourse context. To capture the syntactic features of a free word order language, I present an adaptation of Combinatory Categorial Grammars called {}-CCGs (set-CCGs). In {}-CCGs, a verb's subcategorization requirements are relaxed so that it requires a set of arguments without specifying their linear order. I integrate a level of information structure, representing pragmatic functions such as topic and focus, with {}-CCGs to allow certain pragmatic distinctions in meaning to influence the word order of a sentence in a compositional way. Finally, I discuss how this strategy is used within an implemented generation system which produces Turkish sentences with context-appropriate word orders in a simple database query task.
dc.description10 pages, uuencoded compressed postscript file, appears in the Proceedings of the 7th International Generation Workshop
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9407017
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9407017
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/151031
dc.subjectComputation and Language
dc.titleGenerating Context-Appropriate Word Orders in Turkish
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