Linguistics 239e: Grammar Engineering
			       SYLLABUS

LOGISTICS:

Contact Information:

  Ron Kaplan: phone   650 812-4348
              email   rmkaplan@stanford.edu

  Tracy King: phone   650 812-4808
              email   thking@stanford.edu

Class Time:
   Thursday 2:15-5:05, room Meyer 183

Office Hours:
  Monday 4.00-4.30 (room TBA) and by appointment. 
  We can stay later as necessary to answer questions; send email if you
  need to arrive before or after this time.  
  Also, you can ask questions after class on Thursday or by email or phone.

Course web page:
  http://www.stanford.edu/class/linguist239e/

Course directory on elaine:
  /afs/ir.stanford.edu/class/linguist239e

XLE directory on elaine:
  /afs/ir.stanford.edu/data/linguistics/XLE


Grading: There will be weekly 9 assignments and (probably) a written final exam.

SYLLABUS:

* Week of Jan 5 (no class Monday)

  Introduction to grammar engineering
  Introduction to lfg and xle

* Week of Jan 12

  Engineering and linguistic generalizations
  Formal devices:
    equations
    lexicons
    templates
    lexical rules

* Week of Jan 19 (no class Monday)

  Functional uncertainty

* Week of Jan 26

  Coordination
  Macros/metarulemacro

* Week of Feb 2

  Context-free parsing
  Complex categories/rule parameterization

* Week of Feb 9

  Integration of fst technologies
    tokenizers
    morphological analyzers


* Week of Feb 16 (no class Monday)

  Ambiguity and robustness I
    OT marks

* Week of Feb 23

  Ambiguity and robustness II
    fragments
    guessers
    generation vs. parsing

* Week of Mar 1

  Grammar specialization and extension
  Testing, evaluation, and documentation

* Week of Mar 8

  Statistical techniques for deep grammars
  Multilingual grammar development: the pargram project
  Integration and larger systems
    shallow techniques
    applications 

* Week of Mar 15

  Final exam