NLTK, the Natural Language Toolkit, is a suite of open source program modules, tutorials
and problem sets, providing ready-to-use computational linguistics courseware. NLTK …

Modern grammar development platforms often support multiple devices for representing
properties of a natural language, giving the grammar writer some freedom in implementing …

Reflecting an increased need for stochastic parse selection models over hand-built linguistic
grammars and a lack of appropriately detailed training material, we present the Linguistic …

Nowadays, we are witnessing an ever-growing trend of deploying lightweight linguistic
analysis for solving problems that deal with the conversion of the vast bulk of raw textual …

In this paper I discuss several possible analyses for constituent order in German.
Approaches that assume continuous constituents are compared with an approach that …

We describe a framework for deep linguistic processing for natural language understanding
in task-oriented spoken dialogue systems. The goal is to create domaingeneral processing …

We present an architecture for the integration of shallow and deep NLP components which
is aimed at flexible combination of different language technologies for a range of practical …

The LinGO grammar consists of a specification of a type system and of various typed feature
structures which are well-formed according to the type system. The typed feature structures …

Grammars of natural languages can be expressed as mathematical objects, similar to
computer programs. Such a formal presentation of grammars facilitates mathematical …

We describe a novel approach to'packing'of local ambiguity in parsing with a wide-coverage
HPSG grammar, and provide an empirical assessment of the interaction between various …