Syllabus of "Grammar Development in Constraint-based Grammar Formalisms" (LING 496)

Instructors:
Erhard Hinrichs, Detmar Meurers
(Universität Tübingen)

Grammar Development in Constraint-Based Grammar Formalisms

Syllabus

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

June 22
- Course
  - Introduction: course goals, syllabus, practical matters.
  - Grammar: lexical entries.
  - Background: three languages (descriptions, AVMs, DAGs).
- Lab
  - ConTroll: starting and compiling a grammar.
  - Querying for grammatical words.
June 25
- Course
  - Grammar: ID Schemata.
  - Background: types and the idea behind signatures.
- Lab (Exercise sheet 1)
  - ConTroll: interaction with the signature.
  - Grammar: add transitive verbs to the grammar.
June 29
- Course
  - Discussion of exercises
  - Background: minimizing representations (unfilling).
  - ConTroll: different list notations, special lexicon syntax.
- Lab (Exercise sheet 2)
  - ConTroll: change the grammar to the special lexicon syntax.
  - Grammar: extend the grammar with 1. person singular personal pronouns and ditransitive verbs.
  - ConTroll: find errors in list syntax.
July 2
- Course
  - Discussion of exercises.
  - Grammar: universal principles.
  - ConTroll: inspecting the compilation log and using the debugger.
- Lab (Exercise sheet 3)
  - ConTroll: grammar debugging.
  - Grammar: NP Syntax exercise.
July 6
- Course
  - Discussion of exercises.
  - Background: checking grammaticality (laziness and delays).
- Lab (Exercise sheet 4)
  - Grammar: extending the grammar with sentential complements.
July 9
- Course
  - Discussion of exercises.
  - Grammar/Background: combining the sentence grammar with the NP syntax. The use of relations for combining phonological strings.
  - Background: delaying relations
- Lab (Exercise sheet 5)
  - Background: define the relations reverse, permute, and select.
  - Grammar: combine the NP with the sentence grammar (following the model in the course).
July 13
- Course
  - Discussion of exercises.
  - Grammar: flat German word order grammar (using permute and subcat principle).
  - Grammar: different headed-constructions in HPSG.
- Lab (Exercise sheet 6)
  - Grammar: extend English NP grammar with plural nouns and adjectives.
July 16
- Course
  - Discussion of exercises.
  - Background: abbreviations and generalizations over the lexicon.
  - The overall picture: ConTroll and other systems.


[LSA Welcoming Page]	[LING 496 Home Page]	[LSA Site Index]