ANALYZING INDONESIAN ONLINE NEWSPAPER HEADLINES USING LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR

Lexical Functional Grammar

Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) is a linguistic theory which studies the various aspects of linguistic structure and the relations between them. Traditional LFG analyses focus on two syntactic structures. Constituent structure (cstructure) represents word order and phrasal groupings, and functional structure (f-structure) represents grammatical functions like subject and object. These structur...

Lexical Functional Grammar

The term Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) first appeared in print in the 1982 volume edited by Joan Bresnan: The Mental Representation of Grammatical Relations, the culmination of many years of research. LFG differs from both transformational grammar and relational grammar in assuming a single level of syntactic structure. LFG rejects syntactic movement of constituents as the mechanism by which...

On newspaper headlines as relevance optimizers

This paper suggests an explanatory functional characterization of newspaper headlines. Couched within Sperber and Wilson’s (1986) relevance theory, the paper makes the claim that headlines are designed to optimize the relevance of their stories for their readers: Headlines provide the readers with the optimal ratio between contextual effect and processing effort, and direct readers to construct...

Optimality-theoretic Lexical Functional Grammar

Automatic Lexical Functional Grammar Development

This paper presents the modifications in automatic Lexical Functional Grammar development technique. It proposes a new syntax customized from base syntax pattern of a regular expression based CFG template. This modification is helpful to add generalization in these templates with the coordination of constraint solver of LFG parsers. Further this paper reports the results of the system that has ...