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- Bamutura, David, 1984, et al.
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Towards computational resource grammars for runyankore and rukiga
- 2020
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In: LREC 2020 - 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Conference Proceedings. - : European Language Resources Association. ; , s. 2846-2854
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this paper, we present computational resource grammars of Runyankore and Rukiga (R&R) languages. Runyankore and Rukiga are two under-resourced Bantu Languages spoken by about 6 million people indigenous to South Western Uganda, East Africa. We used Grammatical Framework (GF), a multilingual grammar formalism and a special-purpose functional programming language to formalise the descriptive grammar of these languages. To the best of our knowledge, these computational resource grammars are the first attempt to the creation of language resources for R&R. In Future Work, we plan to use these grammars to bootstrap the generation of other linguistic resources such as multilingual corpora that make use of data-driven approaches to natural language processing feasible. In the meantime, they can be used to build Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) applications for these languages among others.
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- Lorenzi, Arthur, et al.
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MoCCA: A Model of Comparative Concepts for Aligning Constructicons
- 2024
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In: Proceedings of the 20th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation @LREC-COLING-2024. - : ELRA. - 2522-2686. - 9782493814326
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper presents MoCCA, a Model of Comparative Concepts for Aligning Constructicons under development by a consortium of research groups building Constructicons of different languages including Brazilian Portuguese, English, German and Swedish. The Constructicons will be aligned by using comparative concepts (CCs) providing language-neutral definitions of linguistic properties. The CCs are drawn from typological research on grammatical categories and constructions, and from FrameNet frames, organized in a conceptual network. Language-specific constructions are linked to the CCs in accordance with general principles. MoCCA is organized into files of two types: a largely static CC Database file and multiple Linking files containing relations between constructions in a Constructicon and the CCs. Tools are planned to facilitate visualization of the CC network and linking of constructions to the CCs. All files and guidelines will be versioned, and a mechanism is set up to report cases where a language-specific construction cannot be easily linked to existing CCs.
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- Angelov, Krasimir, 1978, et al.
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Fast Statistical Parsing with Parallel Multiple Context-Free Grammars
- 2014
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In: EACL'14, 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We present an algorithm for incremental statistical parsing with Parallel Multiple Context-Free Grammars (PMCFG). This is an extension of the algorithm by Angelov (2009) to which we added statistical ranking. We show that the new algorithm is several times faster than other statistical PMCFG parsing algorithms on real-sized grammars. At the same time the algorithm is more general since it supports non-binarized and non-linear grammars. We also show that if we make the search heuristics non-admissible, the parsing speed improves even further, at the risk of returning sub-optimal solutions.
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- Bamutura, David, 1984, et al.
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Towards a Resource Grammar for Runyankore and Rukiga
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In: WiNLP 2019, the 3rd Workshop on Widening NLP, Florence, Italy, 28th July 2019.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Currently, there is a lack of computational grammar resources for many under-resourced languages which limits the ability to develop Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools and applications such as Multilingual Document Authoring, Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) and Low-Coverage Machine Translation (MT) for these languages. In this paper, we present our attempt to formalise the grammar of two such languages: Runyankore and Rukiga. For this formalisation we use the Grammatical Framework (GF) and its Resource Grammar Library (GF-RGL).
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- Bringert, Björn, 1979, et al.
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Multimodal Dialogue System Grammars
- 2005
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In: Proceedings of DIALOR'05, Ninth Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue.
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We describe how multimodal grammars for dialogue systems can be written using the Grammatical Framework (GF) formalism. A proof-of-concept dialogue system constructed using these techniques is also presented. The software engineering problem of keeping grammars for different languages, modalities and systems (such as speech recognizers and parsers) in sync is reduced by the formal relationship between the abstract and concrete syntaxes, and by generating equivalent grammars from GF grammars.
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