Finding clauses in unrestricted text by finitary and stochastic methods

This paper is a report of an attempt to provide a better foundation for parsing text by the use of simple finitary and stochastic computational methods. These simple methods have not figured prominently in the theory and practice of natural langauge parsing, with some exceptions (Langendoen 1975, Church 1982, Ejerbed & Church 1983). For an experimental, and more complicated method to derive all prosodic units in the text-to-speech system, i.e. not just tonal minor and major phrases but every...