Overview

A Grammar Writer's Cookbook is an introduction to the issues involved in the writing and design of computational grammars, reporting on experiences and analyses within the ParGram parallel grammar development project. Using the Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) framework, this project implemented grammars for German, French, and English to cover parallel corpora.

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Author:   Miriam Butt (Universitat Konstanz, Germany) ,  Tracy Holloway King (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Stanford University, California) ,  Marma-Eugenia Nino (Stanford University, California) ,  Fridirique Segond (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Stanford University, California)
Publisher:   Centre for the Study of Language & Information
Imprint:   Centre for the Study of Language & Information
Volume:   95
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.351kg
ISBN:  

9781575861708

ISBN 10:   1575861704
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   28 June 1999
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction; The grammars: General analyses; The clause; Verbal elements; Nominal elements; Determiners; Adjectives; Prepositional phrases; Adverbial elements; Coordination; Grammar engineering; Overview; Architecture and user interface; Modularity, maintainability and transparency; Ambiguity/overgeneration; Measuring performance; Finite state technology; Concluding remarks; Appendix.

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Miriam Butt is professor for general and computational linguistics at the University of Konstanz.

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