Urdu and the Modular Architecture of ParGram
Tina Bögel, Miriam Butt, Annette Hautli-Janisz, Sebastian Sulger · 2009
This paper reports on the modular architecture for natural language parsing and generation that is a consequence of using Lexical Functional Gram-mar as the linguistic framework in the context of the ParGram (Parallel Grammar) project. In particu-lar, we discuss the following modules: the tokenizer and morphological analyzer, the syntax as imple-mented in the grammar development platform XLE [1] and the semantics, which is effected through rewrite rules. We also briefly touch upon the ability to allow for extra projections, such as the prosodic projection. Overall, Lexical-Functional Grammar in conjunction with the XLE development platform al-lows not only for robust and large-scale natural lan-guage parsing and generation, but also for the incor-poration of deep linguistic insights.