ESSLLI99, Butt/Frank/Kuhn:

Development of large scale LFG grammars --

Linguistics, Engineering and Resources

Course held at ESSLLI99 in Utrecht University, August 9-20, 1999.
These html pages are a collection of most of the course material, including exercises and sample grammars.

Lecturers

• Miriam Butt, Universität Konstanz, Germany
  Miriam.Butt@uni-konstanz.de

• Anette Frank, Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble, France
  Anette.Frank@xrce.xerox.com

• Jonas Kuhn, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
  jonas@ims.uni-stuttgart.de

Course Structure

Week 1

• Introduction to Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG, see LFG Website at Stanford),
  and to the Xerox Linguistic Environment (XLE)
  • Initial XLE exercises
    
• Types of feature equations, the Lexicon, Templates, and Lexical Rules
  (lecture slides on templates and lexical rules [.ps.gz])
  • Exercises on rule annotation, subcategorization and constraining equations (English)
    (exercise sheet [.ps.gz])
• Functional uncertainty
  • Exercises on templates and functional uncertainty (English) (exercise sheet [.ps.gz])
    
  • Exercises on templates (French) ( exercise sheet [.ps.gz]
    Exercises on functional uncertainty (French) ( exercise sheet [.ps.gz])
  • Exercises on templates and functional uncertainty (German) (exercise sheet [.ps.gz])
    
• Coordination, Macros (lecture slides [.ps.gz])
  • Exercise for a small grammar of English (exercise sheet [.ps.gz])
  • Exercises on coordination and macros (French) (exercise sheet [.ps.gz])
• The Interface to Morphological Analyzers (lecture slides [.ps.gz])
  • Exercise for a small grammar of English (exercise sheet [.ps.gz])
  • Exercises on morphology interface (French) (exercise sheet [.ps.gz])

• Demonstration of the grammars from the Parallel Grammmar Project,
  Processing Aspects I: context-free parsing (lecture slides for both parts [.ps.gz])
  • Exercises on Processing Aspects I
    (exercise sheet [.ps.gz])
• Processing Aspects II: resolving f-equations,
  Complex category symbols and rule parametrization
  • Exercises on Processing Aspects II/Complex category symbols
    (exercise sheet [.ps.gz])
• Ambiguity, Generation and Overgeneration (lecture slides [.ps.gz])
  • Exercises on ambiguity, generation, and overgeneration (French)
    ( exercise sheet [.ps.gz])
• Optimality Theory-style Constraint Ranking (lecture slides [.ps.gz])
  • Exercises on Constraint Ranking ( exercise sheet [.ps.gz])
• From Parallel Grammars to Machine Translation:
  LFG-based syntactic transfer from English to French (lecture slides [.ppt])

Readings

Butt, M., T. King, M.-E. Nino, and F. Segond (1999).

A Grammar Writer's Cookbook. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. CSLI Lecture Notes No. 95.

Sells, P. (1985).

Lectures on Contemporary Syntactic Theories. An Introduction to Government-Binding Theory, Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, and Lexical-Functional Grammar. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. CSLI Lecture Notes No. 3. (Chapter 3 relevant here.)

Kaplan, R. M. and Maxwell, J. T. (1995).

Constituent Coordination in Lexical-Functional Grammar. In M. Dalrymple, R. M. Kaplan, J. T. Maxwell, and A. Zaenen (eds.), Formal Issues in Lexical-Functional Grammar, Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. (Originally appeared in Proceedings of COLING-88, vol. 1 (Budapest, 1998), 303--305.)

Kuhn, J., J. Eckle-Kohler, and C. Rohrer (1998).

Lexicon acquisition with and for symbolic NLP-systems -- a bootstrapping approach. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC98), Granada, Spain. 89--95.
Download: .ps.gz -- .ps

Kuhn, J. (1998).

Towards data-intensive testing of a broad-coverage LFG grammar. In B. Schröder, W. Lenders, W. Hess, and T. Portele (Eds.), Computers, Linguistics, and Phonetics between Language and Speech, Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Natural Language Processing -- KONVENS-98, Bonn: Peter Lang. 43--56.
Download: .ps.gz -- .ps -- (reduced version 2-page: .ps.gz -- .ps)

Frank, A., T. H. King, J. Kuhn, and J. Maxwell (1998).

Optimality theory style constraint ranking in large-scale LFG grammars. In M. Butt and T. H. King (eds.), Proceedings of the Third LFG Conference, CSLI Proceedings Online.
Download: .ps.gz -- .ps

Frank, A. (1999).

From Parallel Grammar Development towards Machine Translation. A Project Overview.
Appears in: Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit VII, Singapore.
Download: .ps.gz

Some Further Links

• LFG Website at Stanford
• LFG Website at Essex
• LFG Conferences (CSLI Online Proceedings)
• Xerox Grammar Writer's Workbench (Medley Lisp system available by ftp for noncommercial usage)

These html pages were created by Jonas Kuhn, August 1999 (Email).