Thanks, Miriam and Valeria!
Yes, I have in fact been in contact with Leonel; he said he wasn't aware of large Spanish LFG grammars.
At the moment, I am working on a funding proposal for grammar-based CALL (since I share the opinion that CALL is an area where precision grammars could really shine). The proposal currently suggests the use of Spanish Resource Grammar (an HPSG-based grammar), but I wanted to know what is happening in the LFG space.
As for German and English CALL, which papers should I be looking at?
Best,
On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 1:07 PM Valeria de Paiva valeria.depaiva@gmail.com wrote:
Miriam, Leonel de Alencar (in the cc, as I don't know if he's in the mailing list) has an LFG system for Portuguese that he's still working on, I believe. Best, Valeria
On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 11:44 AM Miriam Butt miriam.butt@uni-konstanz.de wrote:
Hi,
Martin Forst had a small Spanish grammar going. It would in fact be great if he could put it on-line somewhere for people to take and enlarge (@Tracy — do you have his email address?).
Beyond that I think there have only been a few toy grammars.
I don’t think anything has been done on LFG CALL beyond in German and English and I think there is much more scope in CALL for the LFG type of “precision grammars” than most other areas of NLP these days and I would be very glad to see stuff happen in that area (and would be willing to help).
Best,
Miriam
On 11. Aug 2021, at 13:32, Olga Zamaraeva olga.zamaraeva@gmail.com
wrote:
Dear ParGram members,
Is there a Spanish grammar implemented with LFG? (I looked in the wiki
but didn't find anything.)
If there is one, has it been used in any "writing coaching" (aka
grammar coaching, CALL) initiatives?
Many thanks,
Olga
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