Good reasons for noting bad grammar : empirical investigations into the parsing of ungrammatical written English
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Jennifer Foster, 'Good reasons for noting bad grammar : empirical investigations into the parsing of ungrammatical written English', [thesis], Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2005, pp 452Download Item:
Abstract:
This thesis is concerned with the parsing of ungrammatical written English
sentences. Over a period of eighteen months, a 20,000 word corpus was developed
which consists of ungrammatical sentences which were noticed while
reading a variety of English texts. Each sentence in this corpus was corrected,
producing a second corpus of grammatical sentences. This thesis
argues that the compilation of such a corpus is a useful computational linguistic
resource, describes the methodological decisions which were made in
compiling the corpus, presents and discusses the results of a small questionnaire
study which was used to investigate the reliability of the corpus data,
analyses the differences between the ungrammatical and grammatical corpus,
and makes use of the corpus in three separate parsing studies.
Author: Foster, Jennifer
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Vogel, CarlPublisher:
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