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Adrian ATANASIU, Carlos MARTIN-VIDE
A Construction of Texts by Using an Algebraic Constraint
Abstract.
In many circumstances related to language processing, several steps are
usually followed when constructing correct texts. The first steps consist in the
generation of words which are morphologically, lexically, and syntactically
corect, and these steps lead to dictionaries composed of words over a given
alphabet. The next goal is to construct sentences (we call them texts) defined
as sequences of words which satisfy certain syntactical and semantical
constraints.
In this paper we introduce such constraints via a supplementary checking level
in the form of an algebraic semigroup. Specifically, a restricted correctness
condition is considered: a word can be introduced in a text only if it is
accepted (via the semigroup operation) by the previous two words of the text.
This type of texts construction under the control of a semigroup operation can
have applications in defining the semantics of natural or programming languages. |