1. A Computer System for Transformational Grammar.
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Bobrow, D. G. and Friedman, Joyce
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COMPUTER systems , *GENERATIVE grammar , *IBM computers , *PROGRAMMING languages , *ALGORITHMS , *COMPUTER industry , *COMPUTATIONAL linguistics - Abstract
A comprehensive system for transformational grammar has been designed and implemented on the IBM 360/67 computer. The system deals with the transformational model of syntax, along the lines of Chomsky's Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. The major innovations include a full, formal description of the syntax of a transformational grammar, a directed random phrase structure generator, a lexical insertion algorithm, an extended definition of analysis, and simple problem-oriented programming language in which the algorithm for application of transformations can be expressed. In this paper we present the system as a whole, first discussing the general attitudes underlying the development of the system, then outlining the system and discussing its more important special features. References are given to papers which consider some particular aspect of the system in detail. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1969