TuLiPA: Towards a Multi-Formalism Parsing Environment for Grammar Engineering

Laura Kallmeyer (1) , Timm Lichte (1) , Wolfgang Maier (1) , Yannick Parmentier (2) , Johannes Dellert (1) , Kilian Evang (1)

1 SFB 833 - Emmy Noether Project
2 TALARIS - Natural Language Processing: representation, inference and semantics

In this paper, we present an open-source parsing environment (Tuebingen Linguistic Parsing Architecture, TuLiPA) which uses Range Concatenation Grammar (RCG) as a pivot formalism, thus opening the way to the parsing of several mildly context-sensitive formalisms. This environment currently supports tree-based grammars (namely Tree-Adjoining Grammars, TAG) and Multi-Component Tree-Adjoining Grammars with Tree Tuples (TT-MCTAG)) and allows computation not only of syntactic structures, but also of the corresponding semantic representations. It is used for the development of a tree-based grammar for German.

Mots clés: Grammar Engineering; Parsing; Range Concatenation Grammar; Tree-Adjoining Grammar

Domaines: Informatique et langage [cs.CL]

Laura Kallmeyer, Timm Lichte, Wolfgang Maier, Yannick Parmentier, Johannes Dellert, et al.. TuLiPA: Towards a Multi-Formalism Parsing Environment for Grammar Engineering. 2nd Workshop on Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks, GEAF 2008, Stephen Clark, Oxford and Tracy Holloway King, PARC, Aug 2008, Manchester, United Kingdom. pp._. ⟨inria-00304605⟩