Grammatikformalismen / Grammar Formalisms (SS 2021)

Start:	Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Time:	Tuesdays & Fridays, 10:15 - 11:45

Instructor

Dr. Lucia Donatelli

Email: donatelli at coli dot uni-saarland dot de

http://luciadonatelli.georgetown.domains

Announcements

If you plan to enroll in the course, please email Lucia Donatelli by Friday, April 9. 

The course will use Microsoft Teams as its online platform.

Class sessions will be held in English. The course will follow a flipped-classroom format, so students will watch lectures outside of scheduled course time. Lectures will be in German.

*The course website is currently being updated; check back for further updates.

Course Description

Various formalisms have been developed for the formal description of the linguistic knowledge that a language-processing system needs. In Computational Linguistics, we can choose between different grammar formalisms as linguistic description devices. The formalisms differ with respect to their suitability for linguistic descriptions, their expressive power, and their implementability.

In this lecture the most important current approaches and descriptive languages are presented. We will focus on the following topics: Grammars and grammar formalisms; Context-free grammars and structure trees; Extensions of the context-free phrase structure grammar; Tree-Adjunction Grammar (TAG); Categorial Grammar (CG); Lexical-functional grammar (Lexical-Functional Grammar - LFG); and Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar - HPSG).

Exam Structure

• Final Exam.

Class Assignments

• In order to be admitted to the exam, it is necessary to complete the course assignments. In total, at least 50% of the points must be achieved. Assignments will be given throughout the course.

Curriculum Requirements

• Mandatory: B.Sc. Computerlinguistik (standard period of study in 4th semester)

Credit Points

• 6 ECTS (B.Sc. Computerlinguistik) also as a NF, with HF in Computer Science (Informatik).