So who is doing all the research, and writing all those thousands of scholarly, scientific and technical papers? Computational linguists and computer scientists. Excellent tutorial materials have been developed for training people to use this standard.Īnd yet, if you were to ask faculty members in English departments and Schools of Education, I'd be surprised if one person in a hundred has ever even heard of this analytic standard - and I doubt that one in ten thousand would actually know anything substantive about it. In particular, there's an alternative standard which has been around, with minor modifications and additions, for more than 20 years which has been applied on a large scale (millions of words) in published "treebanks" of languages as diverse as English, Greek, Chinese, and Arabic and which is increasingly used for engineering, scientific, and humanistic applications, as documented in thousands of publications. It's a shame and a scandal that no other mode of syntactic analysis has any grip on the popular imagination today. These results have engineering as well as scholarly and scientific applications.īut the Reed-Kellogg method of "diagramming" sentences has been intellectually obsolete for a hundred years. In fact, there are people whose (paid) job it is to "diagram" sentences - some examples of their output are here, here, here, here, and here.
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