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Dependency grammar, often abbreviated as DG, is a particular approach to the syntax of natural languages. DGs view words as directly linked to each other, whereby the links are directed. Phrases consist of a head/root word and its dependents.

Dependency grammar, often abbreviated as DG, is a particular approach to the syntax of natural languages. DGs view words as directly linked to each other, whereby the links are directed. Phrases consist of a head/root word and its dependents. Dependency grammars stand in contrast to constituency grammars (=phrase structure grammars). Constituency grammars do not view words as directly linked to each other, but rather they take words to be grouped into phrases via phrasal nodes.

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Do formal language theory have concepts corresponding to dependency grammars?

If I am correct, phrase structure grammars in linguistics are the grammars for recursively enumerable languages. Do formal language theory have concepts corresponding to dependency grammars, the concept in contrast to phrase structure grammars in…
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Dependency Trees of types of clauses

I have been trying to learn linguistics, mainly English. Recently I have been studying clauses and dependency trees. I have been wondering - Whether can we assume a rough tree structure for every kind of clause. For example, if we talk about…
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Computational model of dependency parsing

I come from a computer science perspective and am trying to understand dependency parsing. What is the formal (computational) model for dependency parsing? The computational model for constituency parsing is a CFG; anything that can be generated…
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Treatment of copular verb in dependency parse of Google Natural Language API vs Stanford CoreNLP parser

Basically my question is what is the correct treatment of copular verbs in the following sentence: "The car is red." According to Google Natural Language API, the root is the verb "is" and the "car" is the nominal subject of "is". According to…
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how does a dependency grammar finds a root?

The verb is used an a root in dependency structure.What if we have multiple verbs in a sentence, which one will be the root of sentence. also what will be the dependency relation between two verbs ???
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How do surface and deep syntax differ in dependency grammars?

Consider the sentence I will go to Belfast tomorrow. How do its surface and deep syntax tree differ in a dependency-based grammar?
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Dependency grammar on ditransitive objects

https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/14.pdf Page.23 I thought ditransitive verbs are head over direct objects and direct objects are head over indirect objects as in (b) System because I think literally only direct objects are directly dependent…
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In these sentences, are these direct objects and oprds?

I read about oprd (object predicative: https://www.thoughtco.com/object-predicative-grammar-1691446) and I was thinking about the following sentences. Am I correctly identifying the direct object and the oprd: Sentence #1 He found her…
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how to train parser using maltparser?

i have developed a small dependency treebank and now i want to run maltparser on it.i am working on urdu which is written in right-to-left (RTL) form. when i try to train parser it gives following error "The input file 'train_data.conll' contains a…
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