On the Rule-Based Parsing of Czech

This paper presents various attempts to accustom the Rule-based Approach (RBA) as originally introduced by Eric Brill in 1993 (Brill 1993a), on the problem of parsing of Czech (a highly inflective language) within a dependency based syntactic framework (Sgall et al 1986). It is experimentally supported in this paper that the modification of RBA for the stated aim is neither simple nor straightforward for all attempts fail to produce such a set of rules that parses Czech with a comparable success rate to the one obtained for English or the one obtained for the currently best parser (statistical) for Czech (Collins et al. 1999).