Current parsing techniques - an overview

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics grade: 1 University of Marburg course: Human Language Technologies language: English abstract: This paper gives an overview of the current level of techniques used in syntactic parsing focusing on parsing of human language. Different modes of grammatical representation and grammar types are presented as well as the different approaches to parsing (e.g. robust/shallow vs. integrative/probabilistic).