ESSLLI'2000 Workshop on
Linguistic Theory and Grammar Implementation
August 14 - 18, 2000
These proceedings appeared as an ESSLLI reader which was sold at the
summer school. Electronically they are available in the form of a gzipped tar-file with all postscript
files or via links to the separate
papers.
A selection of revised papers will appear in a special issue of the
Journal of
Language and Computation
Description
Partially in response to data-oriented methods, grammar-based
approaches to Natural Language Processing in recent years have made
significant advances in terms of linguistic coverage, wealth of
analysis, efficiency of processing and grammar engineering
techniques. The workshop is intended as a forum for this ongoing work
in declarative, constraint- and resource-based approaches, informed by
linguistic theory. It will cover various aspects of the computational
implementation of grammars based on linguistic knowledge, and in
particular address:
- grammar coverage as a major emphasis in practical projects
- efficiency of processing (e.g., grammar compilation techniques,
abstract machine implementations)
- implementations of novel grammar architectures and mechanisms
(e.g., glue languages, defaults, optimality-theoretic constraint
ranking, underspecification)
- hybrid architectures combining shallow parsing and deep analysis
(e.g., finite state pre-processors for deep analysis)
- grammar development tools (e.g., test methodology, profiling,
visualization tools, grammar debugging and validation)
- modularity in grammar design (e.g., definition of modules in
grammars, separate and incremental compilation of grammars,
architectures for grammar organization)
- mathematical, logical and computational aspects of linguistic
formalisms (e.g., semantics of linguistic formalisms, adaptation of
techniques from programming languages to linguistic formalisms)
The call for papers drew 21 submissions, which
were reviewed by an international program committee:
- Philippe Blache
- Miriam Butt
- Jo Calder
- Ann Copestake
- Nissim Francez
- Erhard Hinrichs
- Detmar Meurers, co-chair
- Stefan Müller
- Tsuneko Nakazawa
- Louisa Sadler
- Shuly Wintner, co-chair
We are also grateful to the following researchers who helped
us deal with the large number of submissions:
- Tilman Becker
- Tonia Bleam
- Tom Cornell
- Denis Duchier
- Frederik Fouvry
- Laura Kallmeyer
- Andreas Kathol
- Dimitra Kolliakou
- Valia Kordoni
- Sandra Kuebler
- Seth Kulick
- Jens Michaelis
- Frank Morawietz
- Gerald Penn
- Janina Rado
- Frank Richter
- Jim Rogers
- Anoop Sarkar
- William Schuler
Funding
Some funding was used to reimburse the ESSLLI
registration fees for graduate students presenting in the workshop. We
are grateful to the Institute
for Research in Cognitive Science (IRCS) of the University of
Pennsylvania for the financial support.
Further information
To obtain further information about ESSLLI'2000 please visit
http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/esslli/
In case of problems or for comments, please contact: dm@ling.ohio-state.edu
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