D-rule
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Revision as of 17:16, 28 July 2012
D-rules (disambiguation rules) are used to prevent wrong lexical choices, to provoke best matches and to check the consistency of graphs, trees and lists. Differently from T-rules, they do not provoke transformations, but induce or block them, by assigning priorities to natural language phenomena. The set of d-rules form the d-grammar.
Syntax
D-rules follow the general syntax (UNL Grammar Specs:
STATEMENT=P;
Where
STATEMENT is the left side (condition) of a L-rule or a S-rule; and
P, which can range from 0 (impossible) to 255 (necessary), is the probability of occurrence of the STATEMENT
Examples
- List structures
- (ART)(BLK)(VER)=0; (an article (ART) may not precede a verb (VER))
- (ART)(BLK)(NOU)=255; (articles (ART) always precede nouns (NOU))
- Syntactic structures
- agt(VER;ADJ)=0; (an adjective (ADJ) may not be an agent (agt) of a verb (VER))
- agt(VER;NOU)=255; (agents (agt) of verbs (VER) are always nouns (NOU))
- VS(VER;ADJ)=0; (an adjective (ADJ) may not be an specifier (VS) of a verb (VER))
- NS(NOU;DET)=255; (determiners (DET) are always specifiers (NS) of nouns (NOU))
