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title: "A Modular Parser for French"
authors:
  - "Eric Wehrli"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/165"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/0165.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1983
pages: "686-688"
track: "Natural Language"
keywords:
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# A Modular Parser for French

Eric Wehrli

*Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 686-688.

## Abstract

In this paper , we describe an efficientparser for French based on an adaptation of Chomsky ' s GovernmentBinding (GB) theory. Reflecting the modular conception of a GB grammar, the parser cons i sts of several distinct procedures corresponding to the subsystems of the grammar (e . g . phrasestructure rules, binding, control, ' theta '-th eory , etc.). The interaction of these fairly simple modu l es produces the kind of complexity required in order to build all the linguistically motivated structures for a given sentence.