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The LinGO Grammar Matrix is a framework for the development of broad-coverage, precision, implemented grammars for diverse languages. Building from experience with broad-coverage implemented HPSG grammars of English (the LinGO ERG), German (DFKI's proprietary grammar), and Japanese (the JACY grammar), and a smaller-scale grammar of Spanish), we are working to extract the components that are common across these grammars and therefore may be useful in the development of new grammars.
The goals of the project are:
To obtain a current version of the Matrix which is configured for certain typological properties of the language you wish to work on, please visit the Matrix cusotmization page. We are interested in knowing who is using the Matrix, and in receiving feedback on what aspects of the Matrix do and don't work as it is applied to new languages. Conversely, the documentation of the Matrix is still under construction, so we are happy to answer questions via email.
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The lab assignments and lecture notes for a grammar engineering course taught using the Matrix are available here. [Thanks to Petter Haugereid for the inspiration for this course.] | |
Bender, Emily M., Laurie Poulson, Scott Drellishak, and Chris Evans. 2007. Validation and Regression Testing for a Cross-linguistic Grammar Resource. In Proceedings of the ACL 2007 Workshop on Deep Linguistic Processing. pp.136--143. [.bib]
Bender, Emily M. To appear (2007). Grammar Engineering for Linguistic Hypothesis Testing. In Proceedings of Texas Linguistic Society X. CSLI Publications. [preprint]
Poulson, Laurie. 2006. Evaluating a cross-linguistic grammar model: Methodology and test-suite resource development. MA thesis, University of Washington.
Bender, Emily M. and Dan Flickinger. 2005. Rapid Prototyping of Scalable Grammars: Towards Modularity in Extensions to a Langauge-Independent Core. Proceedings of IJCNLP-05 (Posters/Demos), Jeju Island, Korea. [.bib]
Drellishak, Scott and Emily M. Bender. 2005. A Coordination Module for a Crosslinguistic Grammar Resource Stephan Müller, ed. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Stanford: CSLI. [.bib]
Bender, Emily M., Scott Drellishak, Bill McNeill, and Laurie Poulson. 2005. 'Semantic Constraints on Syntactic NPs in Grammar Engineering.' Presented at the annual meeting of the LSA, Oakland CA. [handout] [handout appendix].
Bender, Emily M., Dan Flickinger, Jeff Good and Ivan A. Sag. 2004. Montage: Leveraging Advances in Grammar Engineering, Linguistic Ontologies, and Mark-up for the Documentation of Underdescribed Languages. Proceedings of the Workshop on First Steps for the Documentation of Minority Languages: Computational Linguistic Tools for Morphology, Lexicon and Corpus Compilation, LREC 2004, Lisbon, Portugal.
Flickinger, Dan and Emily M. Bender. 2003. Compositional Semantics in a Multilingual Grammar Resource. Proceedings of the Workshop on Ideas and Stratgies for Multilingual Grammar Development, ESSLLI 2003, Vienna. (Also available as .pdf)
Flickinger, Dan, Emily M. Bender and Stephan Oepen. 2003. MRS in the LinGO Grammar Matrix: A Practical User's Guide. ms.
Bender, Emily M., Dan Flickinger and Stephan Oepen. 2002. The Grammar Matrix: An Open-Source Starter-Kit for the Rapid Development of Cross-Linguistically Consistent Broad-Coverage Precision Grammars. Carroll, John, Nelleke Oostdijk, and Richard Sutcliffe, eds. Procedings of the Workshop on Grammar Engineering and Evaluation at the 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Taipei, Taiwan. pp. 8-14. (Also available as .pdf)
The LinGO Grammar Matrix is being produced in the Linguistics Department at the University of Washington and at LinGO Laboratory at CSLI at Stanford University, both part of the DELPH-IN Programme. Many grammar development efforts involving the Matrix were supported by and contributed to Project Deep Thought.
The Grammar Matrix is a key component of the Montage project.
Grammars based on the LinGO Grammar Matrix are being developed by NTNU Trondheim (the NorSource Grammar of Norwegian), the Department of Computational Linguistics at the University of Saarland (the Modern Greek Resource Grammar), and CELI (the Italian HPSG Grammar).
The Matrix and the grammars it is derived from are developed within the framework of HPSG, and in particular a variety of HPSG with similarites to Construction Grammar.
We are situated in the larger domain of multilingual grammar engineering, which includes the LFG ParGram Project, among others. Various projects in this domain were presented at the ESSLLI 2003 workshop "Ideas and Strategies for Multilingual Grammar Development".
In our long range goals of providing tools for field linguists and the construction of a database of data and analyses of diverse languages, we find much convergence with the EMELD, OLAC, and Rosetta projects.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0644097. Additional support for Grammar Matrix development came from a gift to the Turing Center from the Utilika Foundation.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.