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<b>LREC 2010 Tutorial: The LinGO Grammar Matrix </b><br>
May 17th, afternoon *note: might be changed to morning*<br>
<br>This tutorial provides an overview of the LinGO Grammar Matrix Customization System (<a href="http://www.delph-in.net/matrix/customize/matrix.cgi" target="_blank">http://www.delph-in.net/matrix/customize/matrix.cgi</a>). The Grammar Matrix Customization System is a web-based service which elicits typological descriptions of languages and outputs customized grammar fragments suitable for sustained development into broad-coverage grammars. The created grammars use the formalism of HPSG (Pollard and Sag, 1994) and provide bidirectional mappings between surface strings and semantic representations in the format of Minimal Recursion Semantics (Copestake et al, 2005). <br>
The tutorial consists of a brief introduction to the LinGO Grammar Matrix, followed by a demonstration of the customization system and running and extending an output grammar. It offers an overview of a structure-based approach to cross-linguistic variation, which may appeal to researchers in NLP and grammar engineers interested in setting up multilingual resources or cross-framework comparisons. It also provides an entry to grammar engineering for (cross-linguistic) hypothesis testing, which may be of interest to theory-oriented syntacticians and typologists.<br>
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<b>Part 1 Grammar Customization:<br></b>
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(a) General introduction to the customization system<br>
(b) The Matrix Questionnaire: a step by step overview of how to fill out the questionnaire<br>(c) Customizing grammars: how to use grammars output by the system<br>
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Part 2 Grammar development with the LKB:</b>
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(d) An introduction to Type Description Language (TDL)<br>
(e) An overview of the created grammar<br>(f) Regression testing/grammar profiling<br>
(g) Extending the grammar: Implementing new phenomena with the LKB (Copestake, 2002)<br>
(h) Large scale grammar development<br>
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<b>Speakers:</b><br>
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Emily M. Bender<br>
University of Washington<br>
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Antske Fokkens<br>
Saarland University<br>
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Safiyyah Saleem<br>
University of Washington<br>
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