An online collaborative platform for the development of empirical grammars

• Thesis title in Czech: On-line platforma pro spolupráci na vývoji empirických gramatik
• Thesis title in English: An online collaborative platform for the development of empirical grammars
• Key words: gramatika; spolupráce na vývoji; webová platforma; HPSG
• English key words: grammar; collaborative development; web-based platform; HPSG
• Academic year of topic announcement: 2014/2015
• Thesis type: diploma thesis
• Thesis language: angličtina
• Department: Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (32-UFAL)
• Supervisor: Ing. Alexandr Rosen, Ph.D.
• Author: Mgr. Antonio Fernando Garcia Sevilla - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept.
• Date of registration: 09.03.2015
• Date of assignment: 14.03.2015
• Confirmed by Study dept. on: 15.07.2015
• Date and time of defence: 03.02.2016 09:00
• Date of electronic submission: 21.01.2016
• Date of submission of printed version: 04.12.2015
• Date of proceeded defence: 03.02.2016
• Opponents: RNDr. Jiří Hana, Ph.D.

Guidelines

The thesis is based on the assumption that the development of a formal grammar and its integration with data-driven methods and testing environment becomes significantly easier if the grammar developers could use a single platform, unifying available resources and results and allowing for collaborative development. More specifically, the goals of the thesis are twofold:

(1) To develop a web-based, collaborative user-friendly platform for the development of HPSG grammars, where users could build, test and share their grammars, data and results. A typical scenario would include the option of collaborative development within a large project.

(2) To build and implement an HPSG grammar of Spanish of non-trivial coverage, using existing resources as the starting point and the proposed platform as the grammar writing and testing environment.

The platform should allow for extending the rule-based components by data-driven modules to make the system more robust and adaptive, including applications such as dynamic lexicon induction and constraint application weighing.

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