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When linguistically motivated grammars are implemented on a largerscale and applied to real-life corpora, keeping track ofambiguity sources becomes a difficult task. Yet it is of greatimportance, since unintended ambiguities arising fromunderrestricted rules or interactions have to be distinguishedfrom linguistically warranted ambiguities. In this paper wereport on various tools in the XLE grammar development platformwhich can be used for ambiguity management in grammar writing. Inparticular, we look at packed representations of ambiguities thatallow the grammar writer to view sorted descriptions of ambiguitysources. Also discussed are tools for specifying desired treestructures.
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King, T.H., Dipper, S., Frank, A. et al. Ambiguity Management in Grammar Writing. Research on Language and Computation 2, 259–280 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:ROLC.0000016784.26446.98
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