DONALD ROSS
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Department of English, University of Minnesota


"Beyond the Concordance: Algorithms for the Description of English Clauses and Phrases" in The Computer and Literary Style, eds. A.J. Aitken, R.W. Bailey, and N. Hamilton-Smith (Edinburgh: Univ. of Edinburgh Press, 1974), pp. 85-99.

This chapter outlines programs which make automated and educated guesses about the constituents of nominal and verb phrases for parsing English-language texts. The goal is to produce accurate syntactic descriptions of the sentences in a text as part of an effort to analyze literary style. [Note: these algorithms were used in the microcomputer version of EYEBALL.]


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