% % GENERATED FROM https://www.coli.uni-saarland.de % by : anonymous % IP : coli2006.lst.uni-saarland.de % at : Mon, 05 Feb 2024 15:43:45 +0100 GMT % % Selection : Reference #473 % @TechReport{Erbach:1993_2, AUTHOR = {Erbach, Gregor}, TITLE = {Towards a Theory of Degrees of Grammaticality}, YEAR = {1993}, MONTH = {November}, NUMBER = {34}, ADDRESS = {Saarbrücken}, TYPE = {CLAUS-Report}, INSTITUTION = {Universität des Saarlandes}, ABSTRACT = {This paper is concerned with ill-formed language. We distinguish two types of ill-formed language: string errors which can be explained by modifications to the string generated by the grammar, and grammar errors which can be explained by a modification of the grammar which generates the string. A chart-based method for dealing with string errors is presented. We discuss the adequacy of different grammatical formalisms for dealing with grammar errors, and show that context-free grammars are not expressive enough, but that constraint-based grammars are more suitable, if absolute and non-absolute constraints are distinguished. We augment non-absolute constraints in these grammars with probabilities. The relationship between the grammaticality of a string and its probability is discussed.} }