In
these meetings, we will discuss and compare f-structures for a parallel set of translationally equivalent sentences. We will use the Pargram treebank sentences as a starting point. The Pargram treebank is available at the following link (scroll to
the end of the page):
https://clarino.uib.no/iness/treebanks?collection=ParGram&reset-all=true
We
will discuss the f-structures for the following sentences (we may not have time for a discussion of all of them -- it is fine to attend the meeting even if your grammar does not parse all of these):
The
driver starts the tractor.
The
tractor is red.
What
did the farmer see?
Did
the farmer sell his tractor?
Push
the button.
All
participants will translate these sentences into the language they are working on, and produce and print out the f-structures to PDF. There is no need to print out c-structures. We have created a Google Drive directory for the f-structures, which currently
contains f-structures for English and Irish. In advance of the meeting, meeting participants should plan to deposit their f-structures there for as many of the sentences as you can parse. Please contact one of us if you would like to have access to this
repository.
Please
try to model your f-structures on the analyses in the treebank to the extent possible. In the Pargram consortium, the idea is that differences in f-structures for translational equivalents should reflect syntactic differences between the languages -- there
should be no arbitrary differences to do with spelling of feature names or other linguistically irrelevant details.
Unfortunately,
there is a conflict with the originally proposed meeting time next Tuesday (24 Oct) therefore the meeting has been rescheduled to Tuesday 21 November at 9:00 AM UTC (this is 9:00 AM UK time).
The
Zoom link is below. If you have any questions, or if you would like to be added to the list of people with access to the f-structure repository, please send email to one of us. We are looking forward to discussing your f-structures!
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Mary, Lawrence and Elaine
PARGRAM
Treebank
https://tcd-ie.zoom.us/j/93770084827?pwd=OEpZampzanZMS2VXMDNkcEJyTU9WZz09
Meeting
ID: 937 7008 4827
Passcode:
111795