Instructors: Erhard Hinrichs, Detmar Meurers (Universität Tübingen)

Grammar Development in Constraint-Based Grammar Formalisms

LING 496 section EH 4 week course: weeks 1-4 Tue & Fri, 10-12

Course Description

This course will offer hands-on experience to linguists interested in the formalization of linguistic knowledge in constraint-based grammar formalisms. The course will be taught in an interactive fashion in a computer laboratory and will combine background lectures with practical exercises on how to specify grammars in ConTroll, a processing system for constraint-based grammars (particularly for HPSG) that has been developed at the University of Tübingen. The background lectures will introduce the relevant mathematical and computational background of the ConTroll system and will focus on the main ingredients of constraint based grammars: highly structured lexical representations, constituent structures, and the encoding of well-formedness constraints on grammatical representations. In the lab, students will be given the opportunity to undertake individualized grammar projects for modeling theoretically and empirically significant syntactic constructions of their native language.

Lecture Material

Software Documentation