A Formalism and Environment for the Development of a Large Grammar of English
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.
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Briscoe et al. "A Formalism and Environment for the Development of a Large Grammar of English." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1987.Markdown
[Briscoe et al. "A Formalism and Environment for the Development of a Large Grammar of English." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1987.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/1987/briscoe1987ijcai-formalism/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{briscoe1987ijcai-formalism,
title = {{A Formalism and Environment for the Development of a Large Grammar of English}},
author = {Briscoe, Ted and Grover, Claire and Boguraev, Branimir and Carroll, John A.},
booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
year = {1987},
pages = {703-708},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/1987/briscoe1987ijcai-formalism/}
}