Robust Parsing
- Some sentences are not considered grammatical by humans; these
are Ungrammatical sentences.
- Some sentences are not accounted for by a given grammar; these
are Agrammatical sentences.
- Plink can account for both Ungrammatical and Agrammatical
sentences.
- Agrammatical sentences can be eliminated by general rules like
S -> word*.
- Rules like this should only be applied when grammatical rules
are not available.
- These 'ungrammatical' rules are selected with a very low preference.
- Grammatical parsing proceeds as normal, until an ungrammatical
construct is seen.
- The ungrammatical construct is absorbed.
- Grammatical parsing resumes.