Parsing as tree construction
In this paper a model is introduced in which parsing can be represented for a number of
different frameworks, the essential condition being that the terms representing the meaning of an NL string
derive from the representations associated with the words of the string through some (binary) operation of
composition. In that case parsing can be represented as tree construction. The claim of the paper is that
there are linguistic phenomena, like long distance dependencies which have their proper explanation in the
process of tree construction, i.e., independent of the underlying grammatical framework. By consequence, this
model can treat long distance dependencies in Categorial Grammar without discharge and in feature
structures without the slash feature.
Wilfried Meyer Viol