In selator, d. and temperly, d. "parsing english with a link grammar" (1991), the authors defined a new formal grammatical system called a "link grammar". a sequence of words is in the language of a link grammar if there is a way to draw "links" between words in such a way that the local requirements of each word are satisfied, the links do not cross, and the words form a connected graph. the authors encoded english grammar into such a system, and wrote this program to parse english using this grammar.

link-grammar can be used for linguistic parsing for information retrieval or extraction from natural language documents. it can also be used as a grammar checker.

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