shellform
Shellform is a term used in computational linguistics and natural language processing to describe a specific type of grammatical transformation. It refers to the process of converting a sentence or phrase from a less direct or more embedded structure into a more direct, declarative, or surface-level form. This often involves simplifying complex clauses, removing unnecessary prepositions, or reordering sentence elements to achieve a clearer and more straightforward expression.
The concept of shellform is closely related to syntactic analysis and parsing, where the goal is to
For example, a sentence like "The book, which was written by the author, is on the table"