Robert F. Simmons

Robert F. Simmons has 3 papers in our library, in 1975–1992, most of them on English, Syntax & grammar formalisms; often with Yeong-Ho Yu.

3 papers in our library · 1975–1992

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The Acquisition and Use of Context-Dependent Grammars for English (1992 · 34 citations)
Simmons and Yu tackle the difficulty of building broad, unambiguous sentence grammars for English. Hand-written augmented context-free grammars are large, hard to maintain and prone to ambiguity. The authors propose a Context-Dependent Grammar (CDG). Each rule pairs a fixed window of parser state with an action: the…
The Acquisition and Application of Context Sensitive Grammar for English (1991 · 11 citations)
The authors argue that hand-built augmented context-free grammars are complex and fragile. They propose a context-sensitive phrase structure grammar (CSG) that is learned from example parses of English news stories. Each parse is treated as a chain of shift/reduce states. A rule pairs a 10-symbol window (five stack…
Semantically Analyzing an English Subset for the Clowns Microworld (1975 · 7 citations)
CLOWNS is a microworld in which English sentences about a clown, a pedestal, a boat and a dock are turned into pictures.

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