HPSG - basics ??

[Nicholas Yates]

Hi Danny,

It seems to me what you are asking is a full detailed account of HPSG
theory. You probably should try to get a good introductory book (Sag and
Wasow, 1999, Syntactic Theory: A formal introduction, CSLI, is a
comprehensive and  very accessible option).
Since you seem to be familiar with ALE, another good (and web-accessible)
way , I believe, to get a precise understanding of the formalism, is to
learn it by working on its computational implementation. Start by reading
the ALE users guide by Carpenter
(http://arena.sci.univr.it/~scollo/ldpIII1999/lab/ale203/guide/guide.html)
and then continue with Colin Matheson's course on HPSG implementation in ALE
(http://arena.sci.univr.it/~scollo/ldpIII1999/lab/ale203/ale-hpsg/index.html
).

All the best,

Nicholas Yates
Université Libre de Bruxelles


----- Original Message -----
From: Daniel Avram <avram_daniel at yahoo.com>
To: <hpsg-l at lists.Stanford.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 12:30 PM
Subject: HPSG - basics ??


>
>  I have a basic question :
>
>    The man ate a cake.
>
>  How do I aply HPSG on this ?
>   How do I know wich is the HEAD, the HEAD-DAUGHTERS
>   and how is an AVM for one word ?
>
>  Maybe I need a dictionary(database) with words and
> their properties.
>  Any practical examples on the net, because I couldnt
> find anything practical (only Prolog and Ale but this
> is a different approach).
>
>  Any suggestion will be welcome.
>
>   danny
>
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