TY - JOUR AU - Meurer, Paul PY - 2017/11/23 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - From LFG structures to dependency relations JF - Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies JA - BeLLS VL - 8 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.15845/bells.v8i1.1341 UR - https://bells.uib.no/index.php/bells/article/view/1341 SP - AB - <div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p>In this article, I describe the derivation of dependency structures from LFG analyses, with a focus on the Norwegian grammar NorGram. Although it is the f-structures that at a first glance resemble dependency structures most, I show that c-structures are the correct starting point for the conversion, and I outline a conversion algorithm that relies on information from both c- and f-structure, the projection operator, and the grammar itself. The derived dependency structures are projective with non-atomic relations, but can be converted into nonprojective dependencies with atomic relations, and further into Universal Dependency-style structures. As an application, I describe how derived dependency versions of the NorGramBank gold-standard treebank are used to train dependency parsers with acceptable precision.</p></div></div></div> ER -