LING 567 - Knowledge Engineering for NLP - Spring 2019
Central Alaskan Yup'ik (ISO 639-3: esu)
Lonny Strunk and Marcus Martinez
This is a partial grammar built in tdl and based in an HPSG (Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar) syntax paradigm. The grammar was built as part of a graduate level grammar engineering course at the University of Washington, taught by Dr. Emily Bender. The Yup'ik examples were built and grammar decisions were made based on research by Miyaoka, O. and Jacobson, S., as well as community input and knowledge from co-developer Lonny Strunk.
The grammar was initially developed using the LinGO Grammar Matrix, where language-specific syntactic details can be specified, and a 'starter' grammar will be generated. From here, custom tdl edits were made for broader coverage, and testing was done in the tsdb environment.
Course website - https://courses.washington.edu/ling567/
Install Ubuntu+LKB in VirtualBox - https://wiki.ling.washington.edu/bin/view.cgi/Main/KnoppixLKB
LinGO Grammar Matrix customization page - http://matrix.delph-in.net/customize/matrix.cgi
Documentation for the matrix - http://moin.delph-in.net/MatrixDocTop
Documentation for working in the LKB environment - http://moin.delph-in.net/GrammarEngineeringFaq and - http://moin.delph-in.net/LkbTop
Shortcuts for LKB in emacs - http://moin.delph-in.net/LkbMode
esu-lab9 - the most recent grammar tdl files
data_and_choices/lab9_testsuite_combined.txt - the latest test sentences
data_and_choices/lab7_choices_file_7.txt - the latest choices file (unedited tdl exported from the grammar matrix)
-Case
-Agreement
-Argument Optionality
-Adnominal Possessives (incomplete)
-Negation
-Tense, Aspect, Mood
-Clausal Complements (incomplete)
-Adverbial Complements
-Evidentials
-Locative Noun Phrase Modifiers
-Locative Noun Phrase Predicates
-Locative Affix Predicates
-Noun Phrase Predicates
-Adjective Phrase Predicates (incomplete)
-Wh-Questions
-Coordination