LinGO Grammar Matrix Tutorial at LREC 2010

[Antske Fokkens]

***Apolologies for multiple postings***

 *LREC 2010 Tutorial: The LinGO Grammar Matrix *
May 17th, afternoon *note: might be changed to morning*

This tutorial provides an overview of the LinGO Grammar Matrix Customization
System (http://www.delph-in.net/matrix/customize/matrix.cgi). 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).
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.


*Part 1 Grammar Customization:
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(a) General introduction to the customization system
(b) The Matrix Questionnaire: a step by step overview of how to fill out the
questionnaire
(c) Customizing grammars: how to use grammars output by the system

*Break

Part 2 Grammar development with the LKB:*

(d) An introduction to Type Description Language (TDL)
(e) An overview of the created grammar
(f) Regression testing/grammar profiling
(g) Extending the grammar: Implementing new phenomena with the LKB
(Copestake, 2002)
(h) Large scale grammar development

*Speakers:*

Emily M. Bender
University of Washington

Antske Fokkens
Saarland University

Safiyyah Saleem
University of Washington
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