implementation platform for SBCG

[Stefan Müller]

Hi Mariana,

If you do not insist on the MOTHER feature you can use both systems
right away. Using MOTHER would make some minor changes to the parser
necessary (the implementational equivalent to the Meta principle that
licences signs). Maybe there is already an LKB version that does work
with MOTHER. TRALE does not do it right now.

But you can just represent PHON, SYN, and SEM at the toplevel and not
use any DTRS feature and you are pretty close to SB-CxG. If you do not
want to use a DTRS feature explicietly, TRALE does not require one, so
you have the desired locality restrictions.

On the other hand you may want to keep the DTRS to analyze certain
idioms. See for instance the following paper for reasons to keep this
feature:

http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/HPSG/2009/richter-sailer.pdf

Gert Webelhuth just finished a SB-CxG paper and he uses Trale for
implementational purposes.


Best wishes

        Stefan

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