[developers] Fwd: HPSG implementations

[Berthold Crysmann]

Hi Stefan, 

there's also my emerging grammar of Hausa. 

@InProceedings{crysmann_b09geaf,
  author = {Berthold Crysmann},
  title = {Autosegmental Representations in an {HPSG} for {Hausa}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP workshop on Grammar
Engineering Across Frameworks (GEAF 2009)},
  year      = {2009},
  publisher = {ACL}}

@InProceedings{crysmann_b09fg,
  author = {Berthold Crysmann},
  title = {A unified account of {Hausa} genitive constructions},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Formal Grammar (FG
2009)},
  year      = {to appear},
  publisher = {Springer},
  series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}
}


Cheers, 

B

On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 12:05 +0100, Stefan Müller wrote: 
> Hi Emily (and DELPH-IN developers by cc),
> 
> Thanks for all the pointers! I am really impressed how much is done in
> HPSG in terms of implementations.
> 
> The point that I am trying to make in the book is that 50 years of
> Chomskian linguistics (in the narrow sense) did not result in a single
> implementation that reflect the ideas one by one. If you know of such a
> thing I would be happy to learn more about it. Currently I mention the
> following GB-inspired systems:
> 
> @inproceedings{AC86a,
> author = {Steven Abney and Jennifer Cole},
> title  = {A Government-Binding Parser},
> booktitle = {Proceedings of North Eastern Linguistic Society 16. GLSA},
> address = {University of Massachusetts, Amherst},
> pages = {1--17},
> year = 1986,
> }
> 
> @Book{Marcus80a,
>   author      =	{Mitchell P. Marcus},
>   title	      =	{A Theory of Syntactic Recognition for Natural Language},
>   address     =	{London, England -- Cambridge, Massachusetts},
>   publisher   =	{The MIT Press},
>   year	      =	1980
> }
> 
> @PhDThesis{Fong91a-,
>   author      =	{Sandiway Fong},
>   title	      =	{Computational Properties of Principle-Based Grammatical
> Theories},
>   school      =	{MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab},
>   url = {http://www.neci.nec.com/homepages/sandiway/pappi/index.html},
> url_checked =	{\urlchecked{10}{10}{2002}},
>   year	      =	1991
> }
> 
> @inproceedings{Correra87a,
> crossref = {acl87},
> author = {Nelson Correa},
> title = {An Attribute-Grammar Implementation of {Government-Binding
> Theory}},
> url = {http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/P/P87/P87-1007.pdf},
> url_checked = {31.03.2008},
> pages = {45--51},
> }
> 
> @article{Nordgard94a,
> author = {Torbj{\o}rn Nordg\r{a}rd},
> title  = {{E-parser}: An Implementation of a Deterministic {GB}-Related
> Parsing System},
> journal = {Computers and the Humanities},
> volume  = 28,
> Number = {4--5},
> pages = {259--272},
> year = 1994
> }
> 
> However, these systems are only loosely based on Chomsky's ideas. That
> is, they do not use transformations.
> 
> My point is that Chomsky explicitly refused further formalization of
> linguistic theory in publications like this:
> 
> @Article{Chomsky90a,
>   Author         = {Chomsky, Noam},
>   Title          = {On formalization and formal linguistics},
>   Journal        = {Natural Language and Linguistic Theory},
>   Volume         = {8},
>   Pages          = {143--147},
>   year           = 1990
> }
> 
> I think that this is one reason for the lack of implementations in this
> area of linguistics.
> 
> So what I am looking for are examples that show that there is a fruitful
> interaction between theory building and theory verification by
> implementation (for whatever purposes the implementation was done,
> sometimes the implementation may be even useful in practical systems =;-).
> 
> Since the whole thing may cause some discussion, it is important to
> point to fragments of a relevant size and to fragments that are
> well-documented. The best thing is of course journal papers or high
> profile conference papers.
> 
> In the discussion in the book, I mention the Matrix, but this was not
> posted to the HPSG-L since the question was about individual languages.
> 
> You will find the updated list here at the first page of Chapter 8:
> 
> http://hpsg.fu-berlin.de/~stefan/Pub/grammatiktheorie.html
> 
> If you read German and happen to have time, I would be happy to get
> general comments.
> 
> I am still working on it, especially the Nativism, Language Acquisition
> and Psycholinguistics stuff takes a lot of time ...
> 
> I hope to finish everything in March.
> 
> Thanks again and best wishes
> 
>         Stefan
>