27.761, Books: Lexikalisch-funktione Grammatik. (Lexical Functional Grammar): Schwarze, Figueiredo de Alencar

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Subject: 27.761, Books: Lexikalisch-funktione Grammatik. (Lexical Functional Grammar): Schwarze, Figueiredo de Alencar

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Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 16:44:10
From: Brigitte Narr [info at stauffenburg.de]
Subject: Lexikalisch-funktione Grammatik. (Lexical Functional Grammar): Schwarze, Figueiredo de Alencar

 Title: Lexikalisch-funktione Grammatik. (Lexical Functional Grammar) 
Subtitle: Eine Einführung am Beispiel des Französischen mit computerlinguistischer
Implementierung. (A French-based Introduction with Computational
Implementation) 
Series Title: Stauffenburg Einführungen, 30  

Publication Year: 2016 
Publisher: Stauffenburg Verlag GmbH
	   http://www.stauffenburg.de/german/html/fs/fs_24990540.htm

Book URL: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-0-318774 

Author: Christoph Schwarze
Author: Leonel Figueiredo de Alencar

Electronic: ISBN: 9783958094 9783958094116 Pages: 278 Price: ----  .00 Comment: Open Access
Paperback: ISBN: 9783958094 9783958094116 Pages: 278 Price: Europe EURO 34.80

Abstract:

Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) is a well-established formalism for writing
grammars of any natural language. Being explicit, LFG grammars can be
implemented on the computer, which makes it possible to impartially test
grammatical analyses against large amounts of data.

To profit from the LFG formalism's amenableness to empirical testing, this
Introduction combines grammatical analysis with its implementation. It
introduces the LFG model step by step, simultane¬ously developing increasingly
complex computational grammar fragments of French. These fragments are
implemented in the Xerox Linguistic Environment (XLE), the state-of-the-art
grammar development tool for the LFG formalism. The book also shows how word
tokenization and in-flectional morphology may be implemented in terms of
Finite State Morphology using the Xerox Finite State Tools (XFST) and how they
may be integrated into the XLE French grammar fragment. No previous knowledge
of XLE or XFST is assumed; formal devices and techniques are gradually
explained in the course of the book's 8 chapters. All XLE and XFST grammar
code, test sets, scripts, etc. from the book will soon be freely available for
download on Github at https://github.com/lfg-french-grammar/book. The book
addresses crucial topics of French syntax, such as agreement, the subject
clitic, the adjective, prepositions, determiners, sentential complements,
infinitives and control verbs, the passive, auxiliary selection in compound
tenses, as well as a fragment of verb inflection, including stem variations
induced by the orthography. Apart from its use as an introductory textbook or
self-study manual for LFG or for French syntax from a lexical-functional
perspective, the book can be used as well as an introduction to grammar
development with XLE and Finite-State Morphology with XFST. Intended users are
students of computer science, natural language processing, and computational
linguistics on the one hand, and of theoretical linguistics or Romance
linguistics on the other. The text is in German, but all LFG, XLE and XFST
rules and representations are conform to the English-based, international
usage.

About the authors:

Christoph Schwarze taught Romance Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics
of the University of Konstanz, Germany. Leonel Figueiredo de Alencar teaches
German linguistics at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, and
computational linguistics at the Graduate Program in Linguistics of the
Federal University of Ceará in Fortaleza, Brazil. He is also a collaborator
researcher at the Group of Computer Networks, Software Engineering, and
Systems (GREat).

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Morphology
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): French (fra)

Language Family(ies): Romance

Written In: German  (deu)

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