Richter: Grammar Engineering (SS 06)

General Information about the Course

• Course Description in the Kommentierte Vorlesungsverzeichnis (German)
• Classes: Our class meets Mondays and Wednesdays, 14ct-15.45 in room 1.13 at the SfS. The course language is English.
  In addition to the regular class meetings, there are individual counseling meetings with the BA candidates.
• Office Hour: Tuesdays, 10.00-11.00, SfS, Room 2.17 (Email: f.richter@em.uni-frankfurt.de)
  
• Official statement to be included (and signed) as part of every Schriftliche Hausarbeit

Seminar Hand-outs

• Grading Policy, Course Readings (preliminary), etc. (distributed in the first class meeting)
• MoMo file with the grammar of animals of May 15th: animals-grammar.mmp
• The MoMo file with quantificational descriptions of May 22nd: quantifiers.mmp
• Sildes of the extra meeting on June 16th: Slides: Everything about the BA Thesis

Presentations

• Georgiana Dinu: TRALE Definite Clauses
• Kristiina Muhonen: Finnish in Trale
• Jonathan Khoo: Przepiórkowski-inspired Quantification in TRALE
• Niels Ott: Equipping TRALE with a Morphological Analyzer

Implementation Effort

• Links to the experimental and partial implementation of the grammar in Pollard and Sag's book that was discussed in Armin's presentation on May 24th:
  • The signature
  • The Theory

Literature

• Carl Pollard, Ivan A. Sag: Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, CSLI Standford and The University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, 1994.
• Frank Richter: A Web-based Course in Grammar Formalisms and Parsing
• Sailer, Manfred (2003): Combinatorial Semantics and Idiomatic Expressions in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Phil. Dissertation. Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen.
• Soehn, Jan-Philipp (2006): Über Bärendienste und erstaunte Bauklötze. Idiome ohne freie Lesart in der HPSG. Peter Lang, Frankfurt. Pre-publication version.

Software and Manuals

• MoMo: Manual (in pdf format)
• MoMo: Code for downloading and installing MoMo on your computer
• TRALE: Manuals and annotated source code (various formats)
• Web-page with description and all resources of 'Grammar Formalisms and Parsing'
• Variant of the tree_extensions file for debugging TRALE grammars with the source level debugger: new_tree_extensions.pl

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

• 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
  • The linguist list

on computational resources useful for this course

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

on implementation platforms for HPSG

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