A corpus-based technique for grammar development

Philippe Blache (1) , Marie-Laure Guénot (1) , Tristan Vanrullen (1)

1 LPL - Laboratoire Parole et Langage

We argue in this paper in favor of a fully constraint-based approach in the perspective of grammar development. Representing syntactic information by means of constraints makes it possible to include several parsers at the core of the development process. In this approach, any constraint (then any syntactic property) can be evaluated separately. This aspect, on top of being highly useful in a dynamic grammar development, also allows to quantify the impact of a constraint over a grammar. We describe in this paper a general architecture for developing a grammar in this perspective and different tools that can be used in this schema.

Mots clés: Grammar development; property grammars

Domaines: Linguistique; Traitement du texte et du document; Linguistique

Philippe Blache, Marie-Laure Guénot, Tristan Vanrullen. A corpus-based technique for grammar development. 2003, pp.123-131. ⟨hal-00135437⟩