LFG systems and LFG computer implementations

Joan Bresnan bresnan at STANFORD.EDU
Fri Apr 2 03:25:33 UTC 2010


Have a look at Josef van Genabith's and Andy Way's webpages... lots on this!

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Lori Levin <lsl at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
> Stefan et al.,
>
> Do any of the implemented LFG systems use statistical methods or machine
> learning?   Also, is there any machine learning or grammar induction from
> treebanks?  Just curious.
>
>
> --Lori
>
>
> Lori Levin
> Language Technologies Institute
> Carnegie Mellon University
>
>
>
> Martin Forst wrote:
>>
>> Hi Stefan,
>>
>>> • Deutsch (Rohrer: 1996, Berman: 1996, Kuhn und Rohrer: 1997, Forst:
>>> 2006, Forst und Rohrer: 2009)
>>
>> There are probably more (and better) references for the German ParGram
>> LFG. An important one is Dipper (2003); another one, which gives a good
>> overview of the state of affairs at the time, is Rohrer & Forst (2006).
>>
>>> • Spanisch
>>
>> There is a company in Seville that seems to have their own Spanish (and
>> English?) grammar(s) as well as their own processing platform. They were at
>> a ParGram meeting a few years ago, which I missed, so I don't know any
>> details or references.
>>
>> Apart from that, I have a little Spanish grammar, but it's very
>> phenomenon-driven, not broad-coverage by any means and not documented
>> anywhere, let alone in publications.
>>
>>> • Vietnamesisch
>>
>> As far as I know, the ParGram community hasn't heard from our Vietnamese
>> partners in a long time. Not sure how far that grammar has ever come
>> along...
>>
>> I hope this helps.
>>
>> Schöne Grüße
>>
>> Martin
>



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