Construction of a German HPSG grammar from a detailed treebank

ACL-IJCNLP 2009 - GEAF 2009: 2009 Workshop on Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks, Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 37-45

  Cramer, Bart ^a   Zhang, Yi ^a,b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRAMES OF REFERENCE; GRAMMAR EXTRACTION; HPSG GRAMMAR; LEXICAL ITEMS; REFERENCE FOR EVALUATION; TREEBANKS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053396084     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (28)

1. T. Brants. TnT: a statistical part-of-speech tagger. In Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing.
2. S. Brants, S. Dipper, S. Hansen, W. Lezius, and G. Smith. 2002. The TIGER Treebank. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories, pages 24-41.
3. M. Butt, H. Dyvik, T.H. King, H. Masuichi, and C. Rohrer. 2002. The parallel grammar project. In International Conference On Computational Linguistics, pages 1-7.
4. A. Cahill, M. Burke, R. ODonovan, J. Van Genabith, and A. Way. 2004. Long-distance dependency resolution in automatically acquired wide-coverage PCFG-based LFG approximations. In Proceedings of ACL-2004, pages 320-327.
5. U. Callmeier. 2000. PET-a platform for experimentation with efficient HPSG processing techniques. Natural Language Engineering, 6(01):99-107.
6. B. Carpenter. 1992. The Logic of Typed Feature Structures: With Applications to Unification Grammars, Logic Programs, and Constraint Resolution. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
7. E. Charniak and M. Johnson. 2005. Coarse-to-fine n-best parsing and MaxEnt discriminative reranking. In Proceedings of ACL-2005, pages 173-180.
8. A. Copestake, D. Flickinger, C. Pollard, and I. Sag. 2005. Minimal Recursion Semantics: An Introduction. Research on Language & Computation, 3(4):281-332.
9. A. Copestake. 2002. Implementing Typed Feature Structure Grammars. CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA, USA.
10. B. Crysmann. 2003. On the efficient implementation of German verb placement in HPSG. In Proceedings of RANLP-2003, pages 112-116.
11. B. Crysmann. 2005. Relative Clause Extraposition in German: An Efficient and Portable Implementation. Research on Language & Computation, 3(1):61-82.
12. A. Dubey and F. Keller. 2003. Probabilistic parsing for German using sister-head dependencies. In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 96-103.
13. D. Flickinger. 2000. On building a more effcient grammar by exploiting types. Natural Language Engineering, 6(1):15-28.
14. J. Hockenmaier and M. Steedman. 2002. Acquiring compact lexicalized grammars from a cleaner treebank. In Proceedings of LREC-2002, pages 1974-1981.
15. J. Hockenmaier. 2006. Creating a CCGbank and a Wide-Coverage CCG Lexicon for German. In Proceedings of ACL-2006, pages 505-512.
16. A.K. Joshi and Y. Schabes. 1997. Tree-adjoining grammars. Handbook of formal languages, 3:69-124.
17. R.M. Kaplan and J. Bresnan. 1995. Lexical-Functional Grammar: A formal system for grammatical representation. Formal Issues in Lexical-Functional Grammar, pages 29-130.
18. T. Kiss and B. Wesche. 1991. Verb order and head movement. Text Understanding in LILOG, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 546:216-242.
19. D. Magerman. 1995. Statistical decision-tree models for parsing. In Proceedings of ACL-1995, pages 276-283.
20. Y. Miyao, T. Ninomiya, and J. Tsujii. 2004. Corpus-oriented grammar development for acquiring a Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar from the Penn Treebank. In Proceedings of IJCNLP-2004.
21. S. Müller. 2002. Complex Predicates: Verbal Complexes, Resultative Constructions, and Particle Verbs in German. CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA, USA.
22. S. Oepen and J. Carroll. 2000. Ambiguity packing in constraint-based parsing: practical results. In Proceedings of NAACL-2000, pages 162-169.
23. C.J. Pollard and I.A. Sag. 1994. Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. University Of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, USA.
24. S. Riezler, T.H. King, R.M. Kaplan, R. Crouch, J.T. Maxwell III, and M. Johnson. 2001. Parsing the Wall Street Journal using a Lexical-Functional Grammar and discriminative estimation techniques. In Proceedings of ACL-2001, pages 271-278.
25. M. Steedman. 1996. Surface structure and interpretation. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA.
26. G. Ytrestøl, D. Flickinger, and S. Oepen. 2009. Extracting and Annotating Wikipedia Sub-Domains. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories, pages 185-197.
27. Y. Zhang, S. Oepen, and J. Carroll. 2007. Efficiency in Unification-Based N-Best Parsing. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Parsing Technologies, pages 48-59.
28. Y. Zhang, R. Wang, and S.. Oepen. 2009. Hybrid Multilingual Parsing with HPSG for SRL. In Proceedings of CoNLL-2009, to appear.