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Theo­ry and Im­ple­men­ta­ti­on of a Head-​Driven Phra­se Struc­tu­re Grammar for Per­si­an

Grant Agen­ci­es

DFG and ANR (Grant Num­ber MU 2822/3-1)

Princip­le In­ves­ti­ga­tors

Ste­fan Mül­ler and Pol­let Sam­ve­li­an (Uni­ver­si­te Paris III Sor­bon­ne Nou­vel­le)

Du­ra­ti­on

01.01.2009–31.12.2011

Staff

Pol­let Sam­ve­li­an (Paris: de­scrip­ti­ve work, syn­tax, mor­pho­lo­gy, se­man­ti­cs)

Ste­fan Mül­ler (Ber­lin: syn­tax, mor­pho­lo­gy, se­man­ti­cs, in­te­gra­ti­on with Ger­man, Da­nish, Mal­te­se, and Man­da­rin grammar)

Ma­so­od Ghayoo­mi (Ber­lin: de­scrip­ti­ve work, syn­tax, mor­phol­o­gy, se­man­tics)

Oli­vi­er Bo­na­mi (Paris)

Lio­nel Clément (Paris)

Kim Ger­des (Paris)

Benoît Sagot (Paris)

Soha Safaï (Paris)

N.N. (Paris)

Web page of the pro­ject in Paris

Sum­ma­ry

The goal of this pro­ject is the de­scrip­ti­on of cen­tral phe­no­me­na in Per­si­an and the de­ve­lo­p­ment of a non-​trivial grammar frag­ment in the frame­work of HPSG. This grammar will cover a sub­set of the phe­no­me­na that are co­ver­ed in exis­ting com­pu­ta­tio­nal grammars of Ger­man: Long Di­stance De­pen­den­ci­es, local re­or­de­rings (scram­bling), Pas­si­ve, and Con­trol. In ad­di­ti­on the no­mi­nal do­main of Per­si­an, which is quite dif­fe­rent from what is known from Ger­man, and the com­plex noun-​verb pre­di­ca­tes, which con­sti­tu­te a cen­tral phe­no­me­non in the Per­si­an lexicon-​grammar, will be mo­de­led.

In par­al­lel, the pro­ject in­clu­des the de­ve­lo­p­ment of va­rious le­xi­cal re­sour­ces: a) a full form le­xi­con of verbs and com­mon nouns, b) va­len­cy frames for verbs c) the most com­mon Light Verb Con­st­ruc­tions (LVCs) and in­clu­ding idio­ma­tic pre­verb light verb com­bi­na­ti­ons.

The pro­ject aims for a tight in­te­gra­ti­on of theo­ry and im­ple­men­ta­ti­on. The ana­ly­sis will build on al­rea­dy exis­ting im­ple­men­ta­ti­ons of grammar frag­ments for Ger­man, Mal­te­se, and Man­da­rin Chi­ne­se. The grammar frag­ments of the re­spec­ti­ve lan­guages were im­ple­men­ted so that they use a large com­mon core or com­mon parts that re­p­re­sent cer­tain lan­guage clas­ses.

The grammar de­ve­lo­p­ment aims to avoid lan­guage spe­ci­fic rules or fea­tures. How­e­ver if the sti­pu­la­ti­on of such rules or fea­tures turns out to be un­a­vo­ida­ble for the de­scrip­ti­on of cer­tain phe­no­me­na, this pro­vi­des evi­den­ce for ty­po­lo­gi­cal dif­fe­ren­ces that will be the basis of de­scrip­ti­ve and theo­re­ti­cal pu­bli­ca­ti­ons.

Pu­bli­ca­ti­ons

• Bi­jank­han, Mahmood and Javad Sheykhzade­gan and Mo­ham­mad Bahra­ni and Ma­so­od Ghayoo­mi (2011) "Les­sons from buil­ding a Per­si­an writ­ten cor­pus: Pey­ka­re" In Lan­guage Re­sour­ces and Eva­lua­ti­on, 45 (2): 143-​164. Sprin­ger.
• Ghayoo­mi, Ma­so­od (2010) "Using Va­ri­an­ce as a Stop­ping Cri­ter­ion for Ac­ti­ve Lear­ning of Frame As­sign­ment" In Pro­cee­dings of the NAACL-​HLT 2010 Work­shop on Ac­ti­ve Lear­ning for Na­tu­ral Lan­guage Pro­ces­sing, Los An­ge­les, USA, 6 June 2010, pp: 1-9.
• Ghayoo­mi, Ma­so­od (2012) "Boot­strap­ping the De­ve­lo­p­ment of an HPSG-​based Tree­bank for Per­si­an" In Lin­gu­is­tic Is­su­es in Lan­guage Tech­no­lo­gy, 7 (1). CSLI Pu­bli­ca­ti­ons.
• Ghayoo­mi, Ma­so­od (2012) "From Grammar Rule Ex­trac­tion to Tree­ban­king: A Boot­strap­ping Ap­proach" In Pro­cee­dings of the Eighth In­ter­na­tio­nal Con­fe­rence on Lan­guage Re­sour­ces and Eva­lua­ti­on (LREC'12), 23-25 May, 2012; Is­tan­bul, Tur­key, pp: 1912-​1919.
• Ghayoo­mi, Ma­so­od and Sae­e­deh Mom­ta­zi and Mahmood Bi­jank­han (2010) A Study of Cor­pus De­ve­lo­p­ment for Per­si­an In In­ter­na­tio­nal Jour­nal on Asian Lan­guage Pro­ces­sing 20 (1): 17–33.
• Mül­ler, Ste­fan (2010) Per­si­an Com­plex Pre­di­ca­tes and the Li­mits of Inheritance-​Based Ana­ly­ses. Jour­nal of Lin­gu­is­tics 46(3):601–655.
• Mül­ler, Ste­fan and Ma­so­od Ghayoo­mi (2010) Per­Gram: A TRALE Im­ple­men­ta­ti­on of an HPSG Frag­ment of Per­si­an. In Pro­cee­dings of 2010 IEEE In­ter­na­tio­nal Mul­ti­con­fe­rence on Com­pu­ter Sci­ence and In­for­ma­ti­on Tech­no­lo­gy – Com­pu­ta­tio­nal Lin­gu­is­tics Ap­p­li­ca­ti­ons (CLA'10), Wisła, Po­land, pp: 461–467, 18–20 Oc­to­ber 2010.
• Sagot, Benoît and Géral­di­ne Walt­her (2010) Déve­lo­p­pe­ment de Res­sour­ces pour le Per­san: Le­xi­que Mor­pho­lo­gi­que et Chaîne de Trai­te­ments de Sur­face. 17 Conférence sur le Trai­te­ment Au­to­ma­tique des Lan­gues Na­tu­rel­les (TALN 2010), Mont­re­al, 19–23 July 2010.
• Sagot, Benoît and Géral­di­ne Walt­her (2010) A Mor­pho­lo­gi­cal Le­xi­con for the Per­si­an Lan­guage. In Pro­cee­dings of the 7th Con­fe­rence on In­ter­na­tio­nal Lan­guage Re­sour­ces and Eva­lua­ti­on (LREC'10). Val­let­ta, Malta, pp:300–303, 17–23 May 2010.
• Sam­ve­li­an, Pol­let and Jesse Tseng (2010) Per­si­an Ob­ject Cli­tics and the Syntax-​morphology In­ter­face. In 17th In­ter­na­tio­nal Con­fe­rence on Head-​Driven Phra­se Struc­tu­re Grammar (HPSG 2010). Paris, pp: 212–232, 7–10 July 2010.

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