Parsing Danish Text in EUROTRA

The machine translation project Eurotra is described as a multi language modular translation system with 9 monolingual analysis modules, 72 bilingual transfer modules, and 9 monolingual synthesis modules. The analysis module for Danish is described as a 3 step parser with structure generation rules for immediate constituent structure, syntactic structure, and semantic structure, and translation rules between them. The topological grammatical description of Danish proposed by Paul Diderichsen, is shown to be usefull in building the parser for Danish, especially with respect to the interaction between empty slots and filled slot in the topological pattern. At last the special problem with parsing and disambiguation of sentences that allow many pp attachments patterns is mentioned and a solution is suggested. Parsing Danish Text in EUROTRA Ole Togeby Proceedings of NODALIDA 1987, pages 35-57