[developers] Fwd: HPSG implementations

Mon Feb 8 14:51:18 CET 2010

Hi Stefan,

I thought that 'wars' were trendy till the end of the '90s, and that the 
nots were dedicated to cross-fertilisation of fields, theories, ideas, 
etc. :-)

But if it has to be the way you are presenting it below: then in my very 
humble opinion one should not ommit the work of Ed Stabler

http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/stabler

http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/stabler/writing.html

and

http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/stabler/coding.html

There you find all his software and papers on the implementation of MGs, 
which I think you might want to make reference to.

Cheers,
Valia

P.S. The MGRG also has a page:

http://www.delph-in.net/mgrg/

You asked for 'prominent' pubs. Here are a Springer and an EACL one:

1. Kordoni, Valia and Julia Neu. 2005. Deep Analysis of Modern Greek. In 
Keh-Yih Su, Jun'ichi Tsujii, Jong-Hyeok Lee, et al. (eds.), Lecture Notes 
in Computer Science, Volume 3248 / 2005, pp. 674 - 683. Springer-Verlag 
Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN 3-540-24475-1.

2. Kordoni, Valia. 2003. The key role of semantics in the development of 
large-scale grammars of natural language. In Proceedings of EACL 03, 10th 
Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational 
Linguistics, Research Notes and Demos, April 12-17, 2003, Budapest, 
Hungary.

PD Dr. Valia Kordoni, 
Computational Linguistics-Saarland University, 
P.O. Box 15 11 50, 66041 Saarbruecken, Germany and 
LT-Lab DFKI GmbH
Tel: +49 681 302 4682
Fax: +49 681 302 4700
E-mail: kordoni at coli.uni-sb.de
http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~kordoni/
http://www.lct-master.org/

On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, [UTF-8] Stefan MÃ¼ller 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
>
> --
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>
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>
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