Parsing Korean Comparative Constructions in a Typed-Feature Structure Grammar

Jong-Bok Kim, Jaehyung Yang, and Sanghoun Song. 2010. Parsing Korean Comparative Constructions in a Typed-Feature Structure Grammar. Language and Information 14.1 , 1–24. The complexity of comparative constructions in each language has given challenges to both theoretical and computational analyses. This paper first identifies types of comparative constructions in Korean and discusses their main grammatical properties. It then builds a syntactic parser couched upon the typed feature structure grammar, HPSG and proposes a context-dependent interpretation for the comparison. To check the feasibility of the proposed analysis, we have implemented the grammar into the existing Korean Resource Grammar. The results show us that the grammar we have developed here is feasible enough to parse Korean comparative sentences and yield proper semantic representations though further development is needed for a finer model for contextual information. (Kyung Hee University, Kangnam University, University of Washington)