Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar and Natural Language Processing

Venue and schedule

LOT Winter School, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, January 9-13, 2006

Monday	16.00-18.30	9A-05
Tuesday	16.00-18.30	9A-05
Wednesday	16.00-18.30	9A-05
Thursday	16.00-18.30	9A-05
Friday	16.00-18.30	9A-05

Reading List

Ivan A. Sag, Thomas Wasow and Emily M. Bender, Syntactic Theory. A Formal Introduction. Second Edition. CSLI Publications, Stanford University, 2003.
Ann Copestake, Implementing Typed Feature Structure Grammars. CSLI Publications, Stanford University, 2002.

Slides (PDF format)

Lecture 1: phrase structure grammars
Lecture 1: typed feature structures
Lecture 1: complex feature values

Lecture 2: semantics
Lecture 2: semantic representations
Lecture 2: binding

Lecture 3: morphology and the lexicon
Lecture 3: grammars and psychological reality

Lecture 4: passive
Lecture 4: dummies and idioms

Lecture 5: infinitival complements
Lecture 5: auxiliaries
Lecture 5: long-distance dependencies

Links

General information about Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar.
Bibliography of Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar.
On-line proceedings of HPSG and LFG conferences.