Automatic Syntactic Analysis in CLAN

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Info-CHILDES,
    We have now added Kenji Sagae's MEGRASP program to CLAN.  Earlier,  
this program was only available for Unix, but now it is a regular CLAN  
command.
     MEGRASP stands for maximum entropy grammatical relation analysis  
of syntactic patterns.  Currently, MEGRASP only works for English and  
Spanish.  It uses information on the CLAN %mor tier to automatically  
create a %xgra tier with labeled syntactic dependencies.  GRASP, which  
is now described in Chapter 11 of the CLAN manual, identifies a set of  
36 basic grammatical relations, along with 13 ellision relations.  The  
website has pointers to additional published articles describing the  
creation and use of GRASP.  Work on the Spanish system is still very  
much in progress.  Susanne Miyata is currently working on creating a  
Japanese version of GRASP.
   Currently, there are no specialized systems for search and display  
of the %xgra tier, although certainly that would be a nice thing to  
have.  Good luck with the use of MEGRASP and the labeled structures it  
produces.

-- Brian MacWhinney

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