A Formalism and Environment for the Development of a Large Grammar of English

Briscoe, Ted; Grover, Claire; Boguraev, Branimir; Carroll, John A.

A Formalism and Environment for the Development of a Large Grammar of English

Ted Briscoe, Claire Grover, Branimir Boguraev, John A. Carroll

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Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Natural Language. Pages 703-707.

Abstract

Natural language grammars with large coverage are typically the result of many person-years of effort, working with clumsy formalisms and sub-optimal software support for grammar development. This paper describes our approach to the task of writing a substantial grammar, as part of a collaboration to produce a general purpose morphological and syntactic analyser for English. The grammatical formalism we have developed for the task is a metagrammatical notation which is a more expressive and computationally tractable variant of Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar. We have also implemented a software system which provides a highly integrated and very powerful set of tools for developing and managing a large grammar based on this notation. The system provides a grammarian with an environment which we have found to be essential for rapid but successful production of a substantial grammar.

Ted Briscoe, Claire Grover, Branimir Boguraev, and John A. Carroll. 1987. A Formalism and Environment for the Development of a Large Grammar of English. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-87. IJCAI, 703–707. https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/140

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