Default inheritance in an object-oriented representation of linguistic categories
✍ Scribed by Walter Daelemans; Koenraad De Smedt
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1010 KB
- Volume
- 41
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1071-5819
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✦ Synopsis
We describe an object-oriented approach to the representation of linguistic knowledge. Rather than devising a dedicated grammar formalism, we explore the use of powerful but domain-independent object-oriented languages. We use default inheritance to organize regular and exceptional behavior of linguistic categories. Examples from our work in the areas of morphology, syntax and the lexicon are provided. Special attention is given to multiple inheritance, which is used for the composition of new categories out of existing ones, and to structured inheritance, which is used to predict, among other things, to which rule domain a word form belongs.