[Corpora-List] LREC 2010 - Tutorial in LFG Parsebanking

[Koenraad De Smedt]

*LREC 2010: Tutorial in LFG Parsebanking*

*Malta, 17th May 2010, morning session
*
In this tutorial, we present the LFG Parsebanker, a comprehensive
toolkit for interactive incremental construction of a treebank as a
parsed corpus, using the XLE parsing tool. This web-based toolkit offers
an environment for batch and interactive parsing, versioning, inspection
of structures, discriminant-based disambiguation and a structural search
facility. The tool is suited for any language with an XLE-based LFG
grammar. Also parallell treebanks can be constructed.
We will give a short overview of the theoretical foundations,
demonstrate the features of the tool, and then give the audience the
opportunity to test the tool and create their own mini-corpora.

*Tutorial Outline
*
I. Introduction

    * Motivation for the parsebanking tool
    * Short overview of theoretical foundations
    * Future plans

II. Overview of the tool

    * Loading data
    * Annotating sentences
    * Tool features
    * Generating disambiguated parses for sentences
    * Export of data
    * Examination of potential obstacles and solutions

III. Break

IV. Cooperative creation of a «Mini corpus»

    * Participants will each work using the tool themselves
    * Depending on interest and availability of different grammars, the
      «Mini corpus» may be multi-lingual
    * The «Mini corpus» will be available as a resource after the tutorial

*Speakers at the tutorial
*
Alexis Baird,
Natural Language Engineering,
Microsoft

Paul Meurer
Uni Digital, Norway
http://digital.uni.no

*References
*
Rosén, Meurer, De Smedt: LFG Parsebanker: A Toolkit for Building and
Searching a Treebank as a Parsed Corpus
http://lotos.library.uu.nl/publish/articles/000268/bookpart.pdf

Rosén, Meurer, De Smedt: Designing and Implementing Discriminants for
LFG Grammars
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/12/papers/lfg07rosenetal.pdf



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