Richter: Grammatikformalismen für die Computerlinguistik (SS 04)

General Information on the Course

• Course Description in the Kommentierte Vorlesungsverzeichnis (German)
• Information Sheet (distributed in the first class meeting)
• Classes: Our class meets Mondays and Wednesdays, 9ct-10.45 in room 1.13 at the SfS. The course language is English.
• Office Hours: Mondays, 11.00-12.00, SfS, Room 2.17 (Email: f.richter@em.uni-frankfurt.de)
  

Course Readings

• Carl Pollard, Ivan A. Sag: Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, CSLI Standford and The University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, 1994.
  (selected chapters)
• Frank Richter: A Web-based Course in Grammar Formalisms and Parsing
  (selected chapters)
• Selected Course Related Literature in Alphabetical Order

Software and Manuals

• MoMo: Manual (in postscript format)
• MoMo: Code for downloading and installing MoMo on your computer
• MoMo: Start link for the online edition (activate Java in your browser first)
• new MoMo: New MoMo code (released June 14th, 2004) for downloading and installing MoMo on your computer
  The new release fixes a number of bugs. Please use with care, it has not been as thoroughly tested yet as the previous release. Please let me know if you find bugs.
• TRALE: Manuals and annotated source code (various formats)

TRALE Grammars

Aufgabenblätter

• Blatt 1 (May 3rd): Formulate two questions about the course readings of May 3rd (6 pts)
• Blatt 2 (May 10th)
• Blatt 3 (May 17th)
• Blatt 4 (May 24th)
• Blatt 5 (June 7th)
• Blatt 6 (June 14th)
• Blatt 7 (June 21st)
• Blatt 8 (June 28th)
• Blatt 9 (July 5th)
• Blatt 10 (July 12th)

Seminarhandouts

• Die Signatur
• Zu den Grammatikprinzipien

A few relevant websites

on linguistics and on HPSG

• at the SfS:
  • Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft
  • HPSG Homepage (Tübingen)
  • HPSG literature by Tübingen authors
  • The MiLCA project Grammar Formalisms and Parsing
  • Fachschaft ASN

• at the Universität Tübingen:
  • The Library Catalogue
  • Sonderforschungsbereich 441 Linguistische Datenstrukturen

• elsewhere in the world:
  • The HPSG list
  • HPSG Homepage (CSLI, Stanford)
  • HPSG Homepage (The Ohio State University)
  • HPSG Literature: an alphabetical list
  • The History of Mathematics Archive (including biographies of Fraenkel, Panini, Zermelo,...)
  • The linguist list
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft
  • Modern Language Association Bibliography

on computational resources useful for this course

• Introduction to UNIX at the SfS
• Emacs Beginner's HOWTO
• LaTeXe help
• SICStus Prolog
• Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

on implementation platforms for HPSG

• ConTroll
• ALE
• CUF
• TFS
• PAGE
• LKB