PATR-II is a linguistic formalism used in
computational linguistics
Computational linguistics is an Interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary field concerned with the computational modelling of natural language, as well as the study of appropriate computational approaches to linguistic questions. In general, comput ...
, developed by
Stuart M. Shieber. It uses
context-free grammar
In formal language theory, a context-free grammar (CFG) is a formal grammar whose production rules are of the form
:A\ \to\ \alpha
with A a ''single'' nonterminal symbol, and \alpha a string of terminals and/or nonterminals (\alpha can be ...
rules and
feature constraints on these rules.
See also
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Head-driven phrase structure grammar Head-driven phrase structure grammar (HPSG) is a highly lexicalized, constraint-based grammar
developed by Carl Pollard and Ivan Sag. It is a type of phrase structure grammar, as opposed to a dependency grammar, and it is the immediate successor ...
External links
PC-PATR an implementation of PATR-II for PC and Unix systems.
Computational linguistics
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