\title{Syntactic Analysis of Hebrew Sentences}
\author{Shuly Wintner and Uzzi Ornan\\
	Computer Science Department, Technion\\ Haifa, Israel 32000\\
	e-mail: \{shuly,ornan\}@cs.technion.ac.il}
\date{}
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\begin{abstract}
Due to recent development in the area of computational formalisms for
linguistic representation, the task of designing a parser for a
specified natural language is now shifted to the problem of designing
its grammar in certain formal ways. This paper describes the results
of a project whose aim was to design a formal grammar for modern
Hebrew. Such a formal grammar has never been developed before. Since
most of the work on grammatical formalisms was done without regarding
Hebrew (and other Semitic languages as well), we had to choose a
formalism that would best fit the specific needs of the language. This part
of the project has been described elsewhere. In this paper we describe
the details of the grammar we developed.  The grammar deals with
simple, subordinate and coordinate sentences as well as interrogative
sentences.  Some structures were thoroughly dealt with, among which
are noun phrases, verb phrases, adjectival phrases, relative clauses,
object and adjunct clauses; many types of adjuncts; subcategorization
of verbs; coordination; numerals, etc. For each phrase the parser
produces a description of the structure tree of the phrase as well as
a representation of the syntactic relations in it.  Many examples of
Hebrew phrases are demonstrated, together with the structure the
parser assigns them. In cases where more than one parse is produced,
the reasons of the ambiguity are discussed.
\end{abstract}