USING A ROBUST LAYERED PARSER TO ANALYSE TECHNICAL MANUAL TEXT

Authors

  • Richard F. E. Sutcliffe

Keywords:

Layered parser, robust parsing, linguistic domains

Abstract

This article describes an experiment an which a robust parser developed by the author was used to analyse a sample of sentences taken from a software instruction manual. The parser scans the text repeatedly analysing different constructs each time. The article describes the rationale behind the work, the parsing algorithm, the development of a grammar, the preparation of the evaluation materials and the method of evaluation. The results show that a good level of performance can be attained by tailoring the grammar to the domain.

Author Biography

Richard F. E. Sutcliffe

Department of Computer Science and Information Systems University of Limerick

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