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BUG: A Directed Bottom Up Generator for Unification Based Formalisms.

Gertjan van Noord
Department of Linguistics RUU
Trans 10
3512 JK UTRECHT

March 17, 1989

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• Introduction
• Problems with existing generators
  • A major problem for top-down generators: left recursion
  • Bottom up generators
• BUG: a Directed Bottom Up Generator
  • The basic structure of BUG
  • Making BUG complete and coherent
  • Semantic heads
  • Auxiliaries and function words
  • Empty semantic heads
• A comparison between BUG and Shieber's generator
  • Semantic monotonicity vs. semantic heads
  • Efficiency considerations
• Summary
• References
• Appendix
• About this document ...

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Gertjan van Noord
Fri Nov 25 13:48:52 MET 1994