Design and Prototype of a Temporal Grammatical Analysis Tool

Brent Bradbury

Student, LeTourneau University

brentbradbury@letu.edu

Abstract

The Temporal Grammatical Analysis (TGA) project takes a unique approach to natural language processing by analyzing human edited text as it progresses through a sequence of revisions. Individual sentences are coordinated using a RMS minimization algorithm to determine the correlation of sentences across document versions.  Changes in grammatical structure are then scrutinized to discover patterns defining "better" grammar, and allowing them to be described in computational terms.

Grammatical analysis is accomplished through the use of libraries developed for the Link Grammar project at Carnegie Mellon University, led by D. Temperley, D. Sleator and J. Lafferty. The coordination of sentences, grammatical change analysis, and structure visualization are part of the original efforts of the TGA project.