A Grammar Writer's Cookbook (Paperback)

Miriam Butt

ISBN 10: 1575861704 / ISBN 13: 9781575861708

Published by Center for the Study of Language and Informat, Stanford, 1999

Paperback. This handbook develops a methodology for writing and testing wide coverage, maintainable grammars. Parallel grammars for English, French, and German using Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) as a framework are used as an example. Parallel grammars are grammars with similar coverage in different languages which explore how similarly one can treat various phenomena cross-linguistically. This issue of the parallelism of the analyses is a central concern in maximizing portability and extendability of the analyses to other grammars and languages. For the grammar writer, this handbook provides a useful guide to the range of constructions to be considered in a wide-coverage grammar and the theoretical and practical issues which their implementation gives rise to. The interaction between theory and implementation is discussed, including the implementation of new theoretical developments in LFG such as coordination via distribution, functional uncertainty, and a featural analysis of auxiliaries. "A Grammar Writer's Cookbook" is an introduction to the issues involved in the writing and design of computational grammars, reporting on experiences and analyses within the ParGram parallel grammar development project. Using the Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) framework, this project implemented grammars for German, French, and English to cover parallel corpora. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781575861708

Synopsis:

A Grammar Writer's Cookbook is an introduction to the issues involved in the writing and design of computational grammars, reporting on experiences and analyses within the ParGram parallel grammar development project. Using the Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) framework, this project implemented grammars for German, French, and English to cover parallel corpora.

About the Author: Miriam Butt is a research scientist at the University of Konstanz. Tracy Holloway King is a research associate at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Maria-Eugenia Nino is a doctoral student at the Department of Linguistics at Stanford University. Frederique Segond is a researcher at Xerox Research Centre for Europe within the Multilingual Theory and Technology (MLTT) team.

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Grammar Writer's Cookbook (Paperback)
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat, Stanford
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new