...Systemics

Note that the term `feature' is used distinctly from its use in most unification paradigms. In Systemics, a feature is what Functional Unification Grammar would call a value, e.g., active, transitive and noun are features.

...network)

Note that since entry conditions of systems can be logically complex, the path itself can contain disjunctions and conjunctions.

...system.

Paths are stored with systems rather than types, since the path of all types in a system are identical.

...upon.

Note that some of the forms we restrict through register restriction may actually appear in any one text, although quite rarely. We are trading off between speed for the majority of sentences, and ability to parse all sentences in a text.

...hand

The hand-parsing is really computer-assisted, -- a tool was developed to traverse the system network for each sentence (and each constituent of the sentence) asking the human which feature was appropriate for the target string. This process guaranteed that the human-analysis conformed to the computer grammar.

...nominal-groups

Systemics prefers the term `nominal-group' over the equivalent term `noun-phrase'.

...parse

Note that when the parser is given a less complex systemic grammar, the parsing time is under two seconds for this sentence.

Mick O'Donnell
Fri Jan 26 19:21:43 GMT 1996