Richter: Grammar Engineering (SS 07)

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 and Slides

• Grading Policy, Course Readings (preliminary), etc. (distributed in the first class meeting)
• Sildes of the extra meeting on June 11th: Slides: Everything about the BA Thesis
• Sildes of June 13th: Brief Overview: LF-Ty2 in HPSG
• Readings in preparation of Johannes Dellert's presentation on July 16th:
  Section 2.2.2.1 of Frank Richter (2004) on Speciate Re-entrant Logic

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

Presentations

• Miguel Hormazábal: Parsing with HPSG Grammars
• Johannes Dellert: Model Theory of HPSG Grammars

Grammars

• Grammar hand-outs of May 7th
  • Grammar 1: Signature, Theory
  • Grammar 2: Signature, Theory
  • Grammar 3: Signature, Theory
  • Grammar 4c: Signature, Theory
• Small grammar of English NPs, May 9th
  • Grammar: Signature, Theory
• Extension of Grammar 4c by that-clauses, May 23rd
  • Grammar: Signature, Theory
• Fragments of the grammar of Chapter 8 of Pollard and Sag 1994:
  • Chapter 8 Grammar without Semantics Principle, Clause (a), and without Subcategorization Principle: Signature, Theory
    Remark: This grammar produces no reasonable output for phrases. The task is (1) to add a Subcategorization Principle (non-trivial!) and (2) to add Clause (a) of the Semantics Principle. The lack of Clause (a) does not interfere with implementing the Subcategorization Principle.
  • Chapter 8 Grammar without Semantics Principle, Clause (a): Signature, Theory
    Remark: Less challenging to fix than the previous grammar fragment. This grammar produces correct syntactic output, but it lacks a retrieval mechanism for the quantifiers in qstore. It does not even pass up the qstore of daughter nodes to their phrasal mother. The task is to add Clause (a) of the Semantics Principle.
  • Alternative implementations of Clause (a) of the Semantics Principle (to be integrated with the previous grammar)
    • Version 1: with permute predicate at the top level
      (gets all the readings but undergenerates retrieval site ambiguities)
    • Version 2: with separate qstore-retrieval predicate
      (correct but multiplies certain solutions starting at three quantifiers in qstore)
    • Version 3: final version
      (difficult procedural effects)
  • Test lexical entry with a lexical rule to be used with the implementation of the Chapter 8 grammar: test-entry.pl

Literature and Reading Material

• Carl Pollard, Ivan A. Sag: Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, CSLI Standford and The University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, 1994.
• Frank Richter (2004): LF-Ty2 in HPSG
  Two chapters on the specification of Ty2 and LF-Ty2 in HPSG, taken from Frank Richter (2004): Foundations of Lexical Resource Semantics.
  These two chapters summarize Part I of Manfred Sailer's (2003) dissertation to the extent we need it here.
• Frank Richter (2006): 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.
• Sailer, Manfred (2004): Local Semantics in HPSG. In: O. Bonami and P. Cabredo Hofherr (eds.). Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 5. pp. 197-214.

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