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From: goetz@cs.buffalo.edu (Phil Goetz)
Subject: Re: Case based Int-Fiction parsers
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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1993 22:22:49 GMT
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In article <1993Nov16.133234.15384@infodev.cam.ac.uk> rit10@cl.cam.ac.uk (Richard Tucker) writes:
>In article <2c9gi9$usa@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, dunham@cl-next4 (Steve Dunham) writes:
>a> paint the wall red           (NP + ADJ)
>b> turn the tv on               (NP + PART)
>c> curl up                      (PART)
>d> curl up small                (PART + ADJ)
>e> pretend to be dead           (INF)
>f> tell her to be quiet         (NP + INF)
>g> suggest going north to robot (ING + to + NP)

I treated verbs like "turn on", "curl up" the same way as single-part
verbs.  Before the ATN parser got to parse a sentence, the sentence
was subject to transformations.  For the verb "pick up", I had
the transformation

pick NP up -> get NP

All verbs with parts were treated that way successfully.

Phil goetz@cs.buffalo.edu
