Richter: Introduction to HPSG (WS 05/06)

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, 9st-10.30, 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)
  

Seminar Hand-outs, Presentations

• Karen Steinicke: Pollard & Yoo: A Unified Theory of Scope for Quantifiers and Wh-Phrases
• Jonathan Khoo: Quantifier Retrieval à la Przepiórkowski
• Georgiana Dinu: Optimization of HPSG Grammar Implementations in Trale

(Partial) List of 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)
• For a complete list, see the information hand-out of the first class meeting.

Software and Manuals

• MoMo: Manual (in pdf format)
• MoMo: tar file for downloading and installing MoMo on your computer
• TRALE: Manuals and annotated source code (various formats)
• TRALE grammars: Go to a separate page with links to the TRALE grammars in A Web-based Course in Grammar Formalisms and Parsing.

Slides

• Oral Presentations - A Practical Guide

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
  • 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
• SICStus Prolog
• Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

on implementation platforms for HPSG

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