TheAbbey_Chrysalis2014ProperNouns

A modest proposal for proper nouns

• Parse it with the ERG

  • the ERG now only very nominally marks proper nouns

  • lose named_rels

• things that don't parse into some kind of useful thing
  • create a word with spaces

e.g.

"if on a winter's night a traveller"
"the the"

• For other things, we try to apply the parse as an idiom_style rule
• so e.g.

  • New York New(e,x) York(x)

  • Bill Bill_n(x)

  • Grumpy Grumpy(e,x) thing(x)

  • University of Washington University(x) of(e,x,y) Washington(y)

  • From From_n(x)

  • Devour Devour_n(x)

  • The Cathedral and the Bazaar cathedral_n(x) and_c(x,y) bazaar_n(y)

  • Under under_n(x)

• Keep them both in some way --- this is not yet clear
  • Partially inspired by the RMRS doubling up (and idioms)
• nice to have this available to the treebanker
  • (maybe when down to a few hundred trees)
• possibly matching flexibly

  • Secretaries of State

  • Universities of Washington and Delaware