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Mailing address: NLTT/ISL Palo Alto Research Center 3333 Coyote Hill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304 USA |
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Office/Contact: PARC, room 2650 phone: +1 650 812-4788 fax: +1 650 812-4374 email: mforst "at" parc "dot" com |
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Mailing address: NLTT/ISL Palo Alto Research Center 3333 Coyote Hill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304 USA |
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Office/Contact: PARC, room 2650 phone: +1 650 812-4788 fax: +1 650 812-4374 email: mforst "at" parc "dot" com |
He received his Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics from the Institute for Natural Language Processing of the University of Stuttgart (Germany) in 2007 for work on "Disambiguation for a Linguistically Precise German Parser". The focus of his work is lies on grammar engineering (in LFG), especially the combination of "deep" linguistic processing techniques with empirical methods. He is part of the Parallel Grammar (ParGram) project, a joint initiative with university and industry sites around the world that builds broad-coverage, industrial-strength LFG dependency grammars using the XLE parser/generator/rewrite system. The English ParGram grammar is used by Powerset for consumer search and in the Ambiguity-enabled, Scalable Knowledge Repository project, which uses deep processing techniques combined with a large-scale semantic index for question answering.
Since summer 2007, Martin Forst has been serving as a program committee chair of the International Lexical Functional Grammar Association (ILFGA) and hence been contributing to the organization of the Thirteenth International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference.