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Treebank-based multilingual unification-grammar development

Cahill, Aoife orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-3519-7726, Forst, Martin, McCarthy, Mairéad, O'Donovan, Ruth, Rohrer, Christian, van Genabith, Josef orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-1322-7944 and Way, Andy orcid logoORCID: 0000-0001-5736-5930 (2003) Treebank-based multilingual unification-grammar development. In: ESSLLI 2003 - 15th European Summer School in Logic Language and Information, 18-19 August 2003, Vienna, Austria.

Abstract
Broad-coverage, deep unification grammar development is time-consuming and costly. This problem can be exacerbated in multilingual grammar development scenarios. Recently (Cahill et al., 2002) presented a treebank-based methodology to semi-automatically create broadcoverage, deep, unification grammar resources for English. In this paper we present a project which adapts this model to a multilingual grammar development scenario to obtain robust, wide-coverage, probabilistic Lexical-Functional Grammars (LFGs) for English and German via automatic f-structure annotation algorithms based on the Penn-II and TIGER treebanks. We outline our method used to extract a probabilistic LFG from the TIGER treebank and report on the quality of the f-structures produced. We achieve an f-score of 66.23 on the evaluation of 100 random sentences against a manually constructed gold standard.
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Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Other
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:lexical-functional grammar;
Subjects:Computer Science > Machine translating
DCU Faculties and Centres:Research Initiatives and Centres > National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT)
DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Official URL:http://www.logic.at/esslli03/
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
ID Code:15310
Deposited On:15 Mar 2010 15:52 by DORAS Administrator . Last Modified 21 Jan 2022 16:38
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