Linguistics 187: Grammar Engineering SYLLABUS LOGISTICS: Contact Information: Ron Kaplan: phone 650 812-4348 email kaplan@parc.com Tracy King: phone 650 812-4808 email thking@parc.com Class Time: Friday 12:15-3:05, room 460-334 Office Hours: by appointment You can ask questions after class on Friday or by email or phone. Course web page: http://www.stanford.edu/class/linguist187/ Course directory on elaine: /afs/ir.stanford.edu/class/linguist187 XLE directory on elaine: /afs/ir.stanford.edu/data/linguistics/XLE Grading: There will be 9 weekly assignments plus relevant readings. Homework is due Wednesday at midnight; send to both professors. There will be two short papers due by the end of term (more details at mid-term time): 1. Suggestions for improvements to XLE as a grammar development platform. (1+ pages) 2. Discuss the properties of a natural language application system. One of the readings from the last week can be used for ideas. (3+ pages) SYLLABUS: * Week of April 7 Introduction to grammar engineering Introduction to lfg and xle * Week of April 14 Engineering and linguistic generalizations Formal devices: equations lexicons templates lexical rules * Week of April 21 Configurations and declarations Metarulemacro * Week of April 28 Ambiguity Coordination * Week of May 5 Context-free parsing Functional Uncertainty Complex categories/rule parameterization * Week of May 12 Integration of fst technologies tokenizers morphological analyzers * Week of May 19 Ambiguity and robustness OT marks fragments guessers generation vs. parsing * Week of May 26 Generation Stochastic disambiguation Inducing grammars * Week of June 2 Applications and Transfer Question Answering Machine Translation Sentence Condensation Tutoring Systems/CALL Multilingual grammar development: the pargram project * Week of June 9 No class; last assignment due