Proceedings of the Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks (GEAF) 2015 Workshop
Résumé
Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks (GEAF) 2015 took place on 30 July 2015 in Beijing. This workshop builds on several previous workshop on the same topic, namely GEAF 2007 at the LSA Linguistic Institute at Stanford, GEAF 2008 at COLING in Manchester, GEAF 2009 at ACL/IJCNLP in Singapore and HMGE 2013 at ESSLLI 2013 in Düsseldorf.
Grammar engineering, the practice of developing linguistically motivated grammars in software, is an active area of research in computational linguistics and comprises contemporary works across many different theoretical frameworks. The fruits of grammar engineering, namely linguistically motivated grammars which in many cases provide rich, detailed semantic representations, support the development of natural language technologies, including both natural language understanding and generation, that derive much more information from the linguistic signal than is otherwise possible. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers working in grammar engineering and to advance the state of the art in this field. In addition to the nine papers included in these proceedings, the workshop featured a panel discussion on how grammar engineering can continue to be relevant in computational linguistics. The panel addressed questions such as, What are the strengths of grammars that cannot be ignored? What success stories do we have? What should be done differently? And what can we learn from other approaches?