Abstract
This paper describes an open-source Latvian resource grammar implemented in Grammatical Framework (GF), a programming language for multilingual grammar applications. GF differentiates between concrete grammars and abstract grammars: translation among concrete languages is provided via abstract syntax trees. Thus the same concrete grammar is effectively used for both language analysis and language generation. Furthermore, GF differentiates between general-purpose resource grammars and domain-specific application grammars that are built on top of the resource grammars. The GF resource grammar library (RGL) currently supports more than 20 languages that implement a common API. Latvian is the 13th official European Union language that is made available in the RGL. We briefly describe the grammatical features of Latvian and illustrate how they are handled in the multilingual framework of GF. We also illustrate some application areas of the Latvian resource grammar, and briefly discuss the limitations of the RGL and potential long-term improvements using frame semantics.- Anthology ID:
- L12-1582
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2012
- Address:
- Istanbul, Turkey
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Mehmet Uğur Doğan, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
- Note:
- Pages:
- 1680–1685
- Language:
- URL:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/976_Paper.pdf
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Pēteris Paikens and Normunds Grūzītis. 2012. An implementation of a Latvian resource grammar in Grammatical Framework. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 1680–1685, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- An implementation of a Latvian resource grammar in Grammatical Framework (Paikens & Grūzītis, LREC 2012)
- PDF:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/976_Paper.pdf