In order to obtain a high precision and high coverage grammar, we proposed a model to measure grammar coverage and designed a PCFG parser to measure efficiency of the grammar. To generalize grammars, a grammar binarization method was proposed to increase the coverage of a probabilistic contextfree grammar. In the mean time linguistically-motivated feature constraints were added into grammar rul...

The title of this book, Categorial Grammar: Logical Syntax, Semantics, and Processing, indicates that this will be a book about categorial grammar. In the preface, however, several strains of categorial grammar are discussed, including combinatory categorial grammar (Steedman 2000), pregroup grammar (Lambek 1999), and abstract categorial grammar (de Groote 2001), and it is clarified that the bo...

Grammar testing is discussed in the context of grammar engineering (i.e., software engineering for grammars). We propose a generalisation of the known rule coverage for grammars, that is, contextdependent branch coverage. We investigate grammar testing, especially coverage analysis, test set generation, and integration of testing and grammar transformations. Grammar recovery is chosen as a subf...

Teacher language awareness and its relationship to pedagogical practice (Andrews, 2003) have been identified as significant contributors to the teaching of grammar. Various TESOL programs teach pedagogical and theoretical grammar in different ways and some focus on specific approaches to grammar teaching, which include systemic functional grammar, transformational grammar, traditional grammar a...

This work extends a semi-automatic grammar induction approach previously proposed in [1]. We investigate the use of Information Gain (IG) in place of Mutual Information (MI) for grammar induction based on an unannotated training corpus. Experiments using the ATIS-3 training corpus indicate that the use of IG led to better precision and recall of desired semantic categories and at earlier stages...

The status of English grammar teaching in English teaching has weakened and even once disappeared in part English class; until the late 1980s, foreign English teachers had a consistent view of the importance of grammar teaching. In recent years, more and more domestic scholars begin to think about the situation of China and explore the grammar teaching method. This article will review the expli...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of using Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM) on the learners’ achievement in L2 grammar and reading in an EFL context and to further  investigate  whether  the  students’  classroom  performances  would  predict  their  final exam  results.  To  conduct  this  study,  two  classes,  each  containing  30  female  students,  were selected  among ...