The MetaGrammar: A cross-framework and cross-language test-suite generation tool

Alexandra Kinyon; Owen Rambow

The MetaGrammar: A cross-framework and cross-language test-suite generation tool

Alexandra Kinyon
, Owen Rambow

Linguistics

University of Pennsylvania

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a novel approach for building parallel syntactically annotated sentences for different frameworks and languages. These syntactically annotated sentences are automatically generated from a compact higher level of syntactic abstraction, a MetaGrammar hierarchy, which minimizes the need for human intervention in building annotated test-suites. With a single hierarchy, each sentence generated is automatically mapped to several annotations (traditional constituent structure, LFG F-structure, dependency structure and constraint grammar representation) thus allowing one to directly compare the coverage of grammars based on different frameworks. Furthermore, also with that same single compact hierarchy, the tool generates parallel annotated sentences for different languages, which may prove useful for Machine Translation evaluation.

Original language	English
Pages	125-132
Number of pages	8
State	Published - 2003
Event	4th International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora at the 10th European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, LINC@EACL 2003 - Budapest, Hungary Duration: Apr 13 2003 → Apr 14 2003

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Conference	4th International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora at the 10th European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, LINC@EACL 2003
Country/Territory	Hungary
City	Budapest
Period	04/13/03 → 04/14/03

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2003. 125-132 Paper presented at 4th International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora at the 10th European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, LINC@EACL 2003, Budapest, Hungary.

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