The lectures will be a follow-up of the online course "GF Tutorial for Resource Grammar Writers: a fast lane to grammar writing", recorded in 2009. Slides are available and video recordings: The GF system, simple multilingual grammars - What GF is
- Installing the GF system
- A grammar for John loves Mary in English, French, Latin, German, Hebrew
- Testing grammars and building applications
- The scope of the Resource Grammar Library
- Exercises
Morphological paradigms and lexica - Morphology, inflection, paradigm - example: English verbs
- Regular patterns and smart paradigms
- Overloaded operations
- Inherent features in the lexicon
- Building and bootstrapping a lexicon
- Nonconcatenative morphology: Arabic
Building up a linguistic syntax - The key categories and rules
- Morphology-syntax interface
- Examples and variations in English, Italian, French, Finnish, Swedish, German, Hindi
- A miniature resource grammar: Italian
- Module extension and dependency graphs
- Ergativity in Hindi/Urdu
Using the Resource Grammar Library in applications - Software libraries: programmer's vs users' view
- Semantic vs syntactic grammars
- Examples of semantic grammar and its implementation
- Interfaces and parametrized modules
- Free variation
- Overview of the Resource Grammar API
Inside the Resource Grammar Library - Module structure
- Statistics
- How to start building a new language
- How to test a resource grammar
- The Assignment
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