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The definition of a metarule in XTAG

A metarule specifies a rule for transforming grammar rules into grammar rules. In XTAG the grammar rules are lexicalized trees. Hence an XTAG metarule mr is a pair (lhs, rhs) of XTAG trees, where:

 

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1998-09-14