[lkb] Re: Looking for a Comparative Grammar

[Emily M. Bender]

Dear Ahmad,

I doubt that what you seek exists in general and
I can say with near certainty that no such thing exists
in an LKB-compatible framework: you'd need to build it.

However, the main MT paradigm used by folks working
with the LKB/other DELPH-IN resources is to do 
semantics (MRS) level transfer.  For more on how
this works, see the publications of the LOGON project:

www.emmtee.net

As you'll see there, that project involves the combined
efforts of many people.  While there may be some results
you can build on from other work, I fear that you'll
need to scale back the goals of your project.

Emily

On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 06:11:11AM -0700, ahmed hafez wrote:
> Dear Emily 
> 
> I cannot describe my gratitute for you being
> interested in my research. 
> 
> What I mean by comparative grammar is simply a grammar
> that tells the equivanlent Arabic synsem structure of
> an English one. So for instance if the structure of an
> English sentence is S=NP VP a comparative grammar
> should tell that the Arabic equivalent is S= VP NP
> because most Arabic sentences begin with the verb.
> This is just a simplification because the Arabic
> language allows a great deal of freedom in the
> arrangement of the components of a 
> sentence.
> 
> So the comparative grammar is the bridge that crosses
> the gap between the analysis of an English sentence
> (using TRALE or LKB) and the generation of the Arabic
> output using a generator I have not found yet.
> 
> Thanks a lot.
> 
> Best -Ahmad
> 
> 
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