"A statistical grammar for inducing lexical semantic phenomena"
Sabine Schulte im Walde

The talk presents the grammar modelling framework of Head-Lexicalised
Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars (HeadLex-PCFGs), cf. Charniak
(1997) and Carroll and Rooth (1998), as an empirical resource for
inducing quantitative lexical properties at the syntax-semantics
interface. First, the statistical grammar framework and the EM
training procedure are introduced and illustrated. In a second step,
we concentrate on a German HeadLex-PCFG, and describe the grammar
development and design properties. Finally, several examples
demonstrate the usage of the grammar model as basis for lexical
acquisition.