Some questions of the mechanical analysis of sentences

Abstract

In the present paper methods of formal language analysis (within generative grammars) are presented. After discussing their shortcomings, it is shown that latter are due to the (to strong) restriction that the analysis should be based solely on the way the sentence has been generated. If we do not respect this restriction, generative grammar can be completed by a conceptual machinery so that adequate formal analyais, becomes possible even on the base of lowertype generative grammars. Studies on such systems are carried out at the Computing Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and will be reported in a future paper in more detail.