Prof. Dr. Walt Detmar Meurers
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Modularity of grammatical constraints in HPSG-based grammar implementations

  

W. Detmar Meurers, Kordula De Kuthy and Vanessa Metcalf

  

Proceedings of the ESSLLI '03 workshop ``Ideas and Strategies for Multilingual Grammar Development''. Vienna, Austria..

  

This paper is a contribution to the discussion of the choices involved in implementing HPSG-based grammars and their consequences on the modularity and reusability of grammatical resources, a central issue in multi-lingual grammar development. Based on two examples from the English Resource Grammar (Flickinger et al. 2000), the treatment of unbounded dependencies and the analysis of optional arguments, we show that adding recursive relations to the expressive means available to the grammar writer results in more modular, transparent, and compact grammars. Given the frequent use of recursive relations in HPSG linguistics, grammar implementations integrating such relations can also be closer to the linguistic generalizations they intend to implement.

  


  

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Bibtex entry:


@INPROCEEDINGS{meurers:dekuthy:metcalf:03,
  author = {Detmar Meurers and Kordula {De Kuthy} and Vanessa Metcalf},
  title = {Modularity of grammatical constraints in 
           {HPSG}-based grammar implementations},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on ``Ideas and 
               Strategies for Multilingual Grammar Development'' 
               taking place during the Fifteenth European Summer School 
               for Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI),
               18--29 August 2003},
  pages = {83--90},                  
  year = {2003},
  editor = {Emily Bender and Dan Flickinger and Frederik Fouvry and 
            Melanie Siegel},
  address = {Vienna, Austria},
  url = {http://purl.org/dm/papers/meurers-dekuthy-metcalf-03.html}
}