1 GPSG 2 LFG - German Grammar Group FU Berlin - Freie ...

• http://www.delph-in.net/erg/
• http://hpsg.fu-berlin.de/Demos/
5 Construction Grammar
John Bryant, Nancy Chang, Eva Mok developed a system for the implementation of
Embodied Construction Grammar 6 . Luc Steels works on the simulation of language
evolution and language acquisition (Steels, 2003). In personal communication (p. M.
2007) he stated that is is a long way to go until robots finally will be able to learn to
speak but the current state of the art is already impressive. Steels can use robots that
have a visual system (camera and image processing) and uses visual information paired
with audio information in the language acquisition simulation. The implementation of
Fluid Construction Grammar is documented in Steels, 2011 and Steels, 2012. The
second book contains parts about German, in which the implementation of German
declarative clauses and w interrogative clauses is explained with respect to topological
fields (Micelli, 2012). The FCG system, various publications and example analyses
are available at: http://www.fcg-net.org/. Jurafsky (1996) developed a Construction
Grammar for English that was paired with a probabilistic component. He showed that
many preformance phenomena that are discussed in the literature (see Section ?? on
the Competence/Preformance Distinction) can be explained with recourse to probabilities
of phrasal constructions and valency properties of words. Bannard, Lieven
and Tomasello (2009) use a probabilistic context free grammar to model grammatical
knowledge of two and three year old children.
6 TAG
There exist various synstems for the processing of TAG grammars (Doran, Hockey,
Sarkar, Srinivas and Xia, 2000; Parmentier, Kallmeyer, Maier, Lichte and Dellert,
2008; Kallmeyer, Lichte, Maier, Parmentier, Dellert and Evang, 2008). Smaller and
larger TAG fragments have been developed for the following languages:
• Arabic (Fraj, Zribi and Ahmed, 2008),
• German (Rambow, 1994; Gerdes, 2002; Kallmeyer and Yoon, 2004; Lichte,
2007),
• Englisch (XTAG Research Group, 2001; Frank, 2002; Kroch and Joshi, 1987),
• French (Abeillé, 1988; Candito, 1996, 1998, 1999; Crabbé, 2005),
• Italian (Candito, 1998, 1999),
• Korean (Han, Yoon, Kim and Palmer, 2000; Kallmeyer and Yoon, 2004),
• Vietnamese (Le, Nguyen and Roussanaly, 2008)
6 See http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~jbryant/old-analyzer.html and Bryant, 2003.
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