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Research Paper #508 | |
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| Title: | Multiple Meta-Interpreters in a Logical Model of Sentence Processing |
| Authors: | Crocker,M |
| Date: | 1990 |
| Presented: | Submitted to the 3rd International workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Logic Programming, Stockholm, January 1991 |
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| Abstract: | The 'principles and parameters' framework of modern transformational grammar employs a modular set of axiomatic principles, defined in terms of a number of representations, including phrase structure and chains. This has led to the postulation of a modular model of human sentence processing which consists of several modules, each responsible for recovering its own representation with respect to a subset of the grammar. In this paper we describe a logical implementation of this model, wherein each module is implemented as a specialised meta-interpreter, which proves representations as theorems of the grammar. In addition, we illustrate how the meta-interpreters can be 'coroutined' using the goal freezing strategy of constraint logic programming. |
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