XMG - An expressive formalism for describing tree-based grammars

Yannick Parmentier (1) , Joseph Le Roux (2) , Benoît Crabbé (3)

1 LANGUE ET DIALOGUE - Human-machine dialogue with a significant language component
2 CALLIGRAMME - Linear logic, proof networks and categorial grammars
3 ICCS - Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems

In this paper we introduce eXtensible MetaGrammar, a system that facilitates the development of tree based grammars. This system includes both (1) a formal language adapted to the description of linguistic information and (2) a compiler for this language. It applies techniques of logic programming (e.g. Warren's Abstract Machine), thus providing an efficient and theoretically motivated framework for the processing of linguistic meta-descriptions.

Domains: Computation and Language [cs.CL]

Yannick Parmentier, Joseph Le Roux, Benoît Crabbé. XMG - An expressive formalism for describing tree-based grammars. 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - EACL 2006, Apr 2006, Trento, Italy. pp.103-106. ⟨inria-00001133⟩