<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span></span>Dear colleagues:<br><br>Last year, Christoph Schwarze and I published the following introduction to the theory and formalism of Lexical-functional Grammar (LFG) and the development of computational grammars with the Xerox Linguistic Environment (XLE):<br><br>Christoph Schwarze and Leonel F. de Alencar. 2016. Lexikalisch-funktionale Grammatik. Eine Einführung am Beispiel des Französischen mit computerlinguistischer Implementierung(Lexical-Functional Grammar: A French-based Introduction with Computational Implementation). Tübingen: Stauffenburg. X, 271 pp. Stauffenburg Einführungen, 30. ISBN 978-3-95809-411-6.<br><br><a href="http://lfg-book.blogspot.com.br/2016/01/new-lfg-books-cover.html?m=1" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1">http://lfg-book.blogspot.com.br/2016/01/new-lfg-books-cover.html?m=1</a><br><br>In eight chapters (lessons) the book explains the basic theoretical concepts of the theory using French examples and incrementally implements a middle-sized grammar of French in XLE. Each chapter describes a runnable grammar fragment with the respective positive and negative test files. A fragment of French verb morphology is also handled in chapter 7 by means of finite-state transducers using the Xerox Finite-state Tools (XFST).<br><br>Unfortunately the book is written in German. However, now I am pleased to announce that all code from the book (grammar fragments, test samples etc.) is freely available online:<br><br><a href="https://github.com/lfg-french-grammar" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2">https://github.com/lfg-french-grammar</a><br><br>Besides, I have recently published an article in English and Portuguese about FrGramm, a new version of the French grammar fragment from the book's chapter 8:<br><br>Link to the Portuguese version:<br><a href="http://seer.fclar.unesp.br/alfa/article/view/8537" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="3">http://seer.fclar.unesp.br/alfa/article/view/8537</a><br><br>Link to the English version:<br><br><a href="http://seer.fclar.unesp.br/alfa/article/download/8537/6749" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="4">http://seer.fclar.unesp.br/alfa/article/download/8537/6749</a><br><br>FrGramm is also freely available in a repository of the above cited GithHub project. Comments, suggestions and bug reports are welcome!<br><br>Students of mine are presently working on adapting these French grammar fragments to Brazilian Portuguese. These grammar fragments of Brazilian Portuguese will also be made freely available.<br><br>Best regards,<br>Leonel<br><br><br><br>----------------------------------------------<br>Prof. Dr. Leonel Figueiredo de Alencar<br>Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures /<br>Linguistics Master's & PhD Program<br>Federal University of Ceará<br><a href="http://complin.blogspot.com.br/" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="6">http://complin.blogspot.com.br</a><br><a href="http://linkedin.com/in/leonel-f-de-alencar-81268614b" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="7">http://linkedin.com/in/leonel-f-de-alencar-81268614b</a><br><a href="mailto:leonel.de.alencar@ufc.br" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="8">leonel.de.alencar@ufc.br</a></span><br></div><div></div></div></body></html>