TITLE:		TAGGING GUIDE FOR THE X' THEORY GRAMMAR
AUTHOR:		Julie A. Van Dyke
COMMENTS:	(c) Julie A. Van Dyke

ABSTRACT:
The X' Theory Grammar is a computational grammar that models English
syntax according to the X' (pronounced "X-bar") linguistic framework.
The X' theory gives a more generalized analysis of syntax than other
generative linguistic theories that have previously been available to
computational researchers.  It is based on an abstract structural
"template" that is applied to syntactic constituents at all levels.
This has facilitated creating a grammar with a very broad coverage
that can be compatible with many natural language generation or
understanding systems.  In order to fully exploit this grammar, a
computational lexicon entry must include specific features which the
grammar tests for as it generates sentence analyses.  This tagging
guide is meant to provide the dictionary builder with assistance in
building such a dictionary.  Use of this guide in conjunction with
other documentation on this grammar will result in the creation of a
dictionary with great descriptive power- not only for use with the X'
theory grammar, but for other natural language applications as well.