[LFG] FLE project help?

[Vijay Saraswat]

Would be very interested in this.  Any chance that glue will be 
implemented...?

On 1/25/16 4:47 PM, Damir Cavar wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> we are experimenting in the FLE project (Free Linguistic Environment, or
> something like this, maybe just a temporary name) with a parser that
> reads and compiles old (or new) XLE grammar files. If you have some
> samples or larger grammars that are 100% XLE compatible and that go
> beyond the toy grammar or the online available ParGram samples, maybe
> you would be willing to share those with us (even for testing only). We
> can agree to not distribute or share those anywhere and just to use them
> for our own grammar compiler development, if this would be a necessary
> condition.
>
> We test parsing the different sections, CONFIG, RULES, TEMPLATES,
> LEXICON and we are working on the implementation of the semantics to be
> able to provide a first parsing environment that would be backward
> compatible (just understand the grammar!) with XLE, not necessarily in
> all aspects compatible with XLE.
>
> The different grammar formalisms we implement in BNF and convert them
> using BNFC. The resulting grammar parsers will be shared openly.
>
> As mentioned earlier on this list, we are implementing an
> Apache-licensed LFG-parser in C++11/14 that should offer some more
> flexibility and that should be extensible in various directions. The
> more support we get, the earlier we can release a beta, and the more
> compatible it will be with the existing grammars.  We integrated in the
> experimental parser code a Foma-based morphology backend and we use a
> Earley-type of CFG-backbone for the time being that can handle CFGs,
> PCFGs, and hopefully soon XLE-type of grammars.
>
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Best wishes
>
> Damir
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