IGK 2004 Project
| Proposers | : Ralph Debusmann |
| Other interested students | : Ciprian Gerstenberger, Oana Postolache, Stefan Thather, Maarika Traat |
| Suggested Lecturers/Guests | : |
| Time constraints | : |
Extensible Dependency Grammar (XDG) encourages the linguist to distinguish different dimensions of linguistic description. One of these dimensions is Information Structure (IS), aka Topic-Focus Articulation (TFA) in the Prague school.
In their 2003 EACL paper, Geert-Jan Kruijff and Denys Duchier already worked on bringing XDG and IS together, but without giving the IS the status of a separate linguistic dimension, which is probably a better idea, and follows the spirit of XDG more closely. Their research could however serve as the starting point of a new approach to IS in XDG.
This project has a big theoretical and a smaller practical component. The theoretical is to work out a theory of IS which can be used for XDG. Here, we can draw extensively from existing research, e.g. summarized in chapter II.5 of Geert-Jan's dissertation (Kruijff 2001), or in (Peregrin 1995). The practical component is to put these ideas to work in a small handcrafted example grammar, extended by the new IS dimension.
(Kruijff 2001) https://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~gj/dissertation.phtml
(Peregrin 1995) http://semanticsarchive.net/Archive/WE4ZGQyZ/per_tfff.pdf