Abstract
The paper expounds the general conceptions of the Meaning- Text theory about what a natural language is and how it must be de- scribed. In a second part, a formalization of these conceptions - the transductive grammars - is proposed and compared with generative ap- proaches.
I want to thank Kim Gerdes, Alain Polguère and Pascal Amsili for many valuable comments and corrections. I want also to thank Alexander Gelbukh for his sugges- tions about the topic of this paper.
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Kahane, S. (2001). What Is a Natural Language and How to Describe It? Meaning-Text Approaches in Contrast with Generative Approaches. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2004. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44686-9_1
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