A Grammar Writer's Cookbook / Edition 73

by Miriam Butt, Tracy Holloway King, Maria-Eugenia Nino, Frederique Segond

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781575861715
Publisher:	Center for the Study of Language and Inf
Publication date:	06/01/1999
Series:	Lecture Notes , #95
Edition description:	73rd ed.
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Miriam Butt is professor for general and computational linguistics at the University of Konstanz.

Tracy Holloway King is principal scientist in Adobe's Sensei and Search organization, focusing on natural language processing.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations
1. Introduction
Part I - The Grammars: General Analyses
2. The Clause
3. Verbal Elements
4. Nominal Elements
5. Determiners and Adjectives
6. Prepositional Phrases
7. Adverbial Elements
8. Coordination
9. Special Constructions
Part II - Grammar Engineering
10. Overview
11. Architecture and User Interface
12. Finite-State Technology
13. Modularity, Maintainability and Transparency
14. Performance
A. Appendix: Feature Standardization
References
Subject Index
Name Index