The
EnConverter is a language independent parser, which provides a framework
for morphological, syntactic, and semantic analysis synchronously. It
would be impossible to solve all the ambiguities even in a morphological
analysis if the syntactic or semantic analysis is performed
synchronously. Also, it would be impossible to solve every ambiguity in
a syntactic analysis in the absence of semantic analysis.
The
EnConverter works in the following way. An input string is scanned from
left to right. When an input string is scanned, all matched morphemes
with the same starting characters are retrieved from the dictionary and
become the candidate morphemes. The rules are applied to these candidate
morphemes according to the rule priority in order to build the syntactic
tree and the semantic network for the sentence. The left character
string is scanned from the beginning according to the applied rule; the
process continues in the same manner. The output of the whole process is
a semantic network expressed in the UNL format.