Laurel Fais
Non-grammatical Phenomena in Real
English Conversation
Abstract:This report discusses non-grammtical phenomena occurring in spontaneous English
conversation. The source data was taken from a published corpus of English conversation
and examined with respect to the ability of current machine translation grammars to analyze
the constructions found. A number of structures problematical for such grammars are
characterized in detail, with suggestions concerning their interface with MT systems.