From: leonel.figueiredo.de.alencar(a)gmail.com
Subject: computational grammar development
Date: September 22, 2017 11:29:01 AM GMT-03:00
To: ce-pln(a)grupos.ufrgs.br
Dear colleagues:
Last year, Christoph Schwarze and I published the following
introduction to the theory and formalism of Lexical-functional
Grammar (LFG) and the development of computational grammars with the
Xerox Linguistic Environment (XLE):
Christoph Schwarze and Leonel F. de Alencar. 2016. Lexikalisch-
funktionale Grammatik. Eine Einführung am Beispiel des Französischen
mit computerlinguistischer Implementierung(Lexical-Functional
Grammar: A French-based Introduction with Computational
Implementation). Tübingen: Stauffenburg. X, 271 pp. Stauffenburg
Einführungen, 30. ISBN 978-3-95809-411-6.
http://lfg-book.blogspot.com.br/2016/01/new-lfg-books-cover.html?m=1
In eight chapters (lessons) the book explains the basic theoretical
concepts of the theory using French examples and incrementally
implements a middle-sized grammar of French in XLE. Each chapter
describes a runnable grammar fragment with the respective positive
and negative test files. A fragment of French verb morphology is also
handled in chapter 7 by means of finite-state transducers using the
Xerox Finite-state Tools (XFST).
Unfortunately the book is written in German. However, now I am
pleased to announce that all code from the book (grammar fragments,
test samples etc.) is freely available online:
https://github.com/lfg-french-grammar
Besides, I have recently published an article in English and
Portuguese about FrGramm, a new version of the French grammar
fragment from the book's chapter 8:
Link to the Portuguese version:
http://seer.fclar.unesp.br/alfa/article/view/8537
Link to the English version:
http://seer.fclar.unesp.br/alfa/article/download/8537/6749
FrGramm is also freely available in a repository of the above cited
GithHub project. Comments, suggestions and bug reports are welcome!
Students of mine are presently working on adapting these French
grammar fragments to Brazilian Portuguese. These grammar fragments of
Brazilian Portuguese will also be made freely available.
Best regards,
Leonel
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Prof. Dr. Leonel Figueiredo de Alencar
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures /
Linguistics Master's & PhD Program
Federal University of Ceará
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