Richter: Introduction to HPSG (WS 07/08)

Course Description in the Kommentierte Vorlesungsverzeichnis (German)
Information Sheet (distributed in class)
Classes: Our class meets Tuesdays, 16ct-17.45 (Brechtbau, 0.35), and Thursdays, 16ct-17.45 (Brechtbau, 0.35 -- changed from Hörsaal 0.02). The course language is English.
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 10.00-11.00, SfS, Room 2.17 (Email: f.richter@em.uni-frankfurt.de)
Official statement to be included (and signed) in every Schriftliche Hausarbeit or written summary

Robert D. Levine and Walt Detmar Meurers (2006): Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar: Linguistic Approach, Formal Foundations, and Computational Realization. In: Keith Brown (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Second Edition. Oxford: Elsevier.
Carl Pollard Ivan A. Sag (1994): Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, CSLI Standford and The University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London.
Frank Richter (2006): A Web-based Course in Grammar Formalisms and Parsing.
(selected chapters, esp. Chapter 4)
Frank Richter (2007): Closer to the Truth: A New Model Theory for HPSG
In: James Rogers and Stephan Kepser (eds): Model-Theoretic Syntax at 10. pp. 99-108
(Workshop Proceedings of MTS@10, organized as part of ESSLLI'07 at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland)
Additional literature will be discussed in the first class meeting.

(Partial) Implementation of Pollard and Sag's grammar of English in TRALE with web interface
The web interface is password protected to limit access to class members. Some restrictions on the input (queries) and output (parse results) apply:
There is an upper limit on the number of words and the length of strings in parse queries, and only up to 8 solutions of ambiguous parses will be shown. There is also a browser-specific limit to the possible depth of nesting in AVMs. Beyond this limit, the browser cannot expand AVMs.
For using the interface, please activate JavaScript and use Mozilla/Firefox or Internet Explorer. Mozilla and Explorer seem to be incompatible with the web interface on Mac OS X. If you would like to use it on Mac OS X, try Firefox.

Time Table, Additional Paper (October 30)
MoMo files of November 20:
- MoMo file (mmp-format) with well-formed and ill-formed feature structures representing (lists of) birds and pets
- MoMo file (mmp-format) with description of the pronoun she and a feature structure for she as used in Pollard and Sag's grammar of English
MoMo files of November 22:
- MoMo file (mmp-format) with examples of the satisfaction and admission relations in the domain of birds and pets
- MoMo file (mmp-format) with a grammar of birds and pets and its denotation
MoMo file of November 29:
- MoMo file (mmp-format) with examples of quantification and a relation using the familiar signature with animals
Oral Presentations - A Practical Guide