The Swedish Core Language Engine
Björn Gambäck, Manny Rayner · 2001
The paper describes a Swedish-language customization (S-CLE) of the SRI Core Language Engine, which has been developed at SICS from the original English-language version by replacing English-specific modules with corresponding Swedish-language versions. The S-CLE is intended to be used as a building block in a broad range of applications, such as data-base query system, machine translation systems, NL front-ends, speech-to-text/text-to-speech systems, and so on. Examples of the first two types of application already exist. The main part of the S-CLE is an extensive Swedish grammar that is compiled into parsing and generation modules. The grammar formalism is a type of unification grammar loosely based on Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar (GPSG). The grammar is compiled and then parsed with a leftcorner parser. Generation is performed using the Semantic-Head-Driven algorithm. Analysis turns sentences into "Quasi-Logical Form" (QLF), a logical-form representation, while generation wor...