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Courses and Workshops
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| Title: | A comparative introduction to extensible dependency grammar |
| Lecturer(s): | Denys Duchier (LORIA) and Ralph Debusmann (Universität des Saarlandes) |
| Type: | Introductory Course |
| Section: | Language and Computation |
| Week: | Second | | Time: | 17.00-18.30 (Slot 4) |
| Webpage: | http://www.loria.fr/~duchier/
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| Reader: | Download | | Room: | C1 |
Description It is not obvious to see where dependency grammar (DG) fits in the
modern landscape of grammatical frameworks or how to "make it work" for
the practising computational linguist, either in the service of language
modeling or as a computational tool.
Our course addresses both concerns and aims (1) to give a comparative
introduction to modern DG frameworks, and (2) to present XDG (eXtensible
Dependency Grammar), a multi-dimensional lexicalized constraint-based
formalism that explains macroscopic linguistic phenomena as arising from
the interactions of linguistic dimensions through simple constraints and
principles.
We will dedicate each lecture to a specific theme, where we review how
DG and non-DG formalisms have approached the issue, offer, and where
possible contrast, an XDG account, and in passing acquaint the students
with connex notions such as model theoretic syntax and eliminative
parsing. Our lectures will be illustrated with working XDG grammar
fragments for various languages that will also serve to familiarize the
students with the metagrammatical formalism of XDG.
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© 2003, 2004 LORIA, Carlos Areces. |
2003-11-20
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