Chinese in the Grammatical Framework: Grammar, Translation, and Other Applications Anonymous
Aarne Ranta, Tian Yan, Haiyan Qiao · 2015
Grammatical Framework (GF) is a grammar formalism based on type theory and functional programming.It is also a platform for multilingual applications such as translation, localization, and information retrieval.To enable non-linguist programmers to build linguistically precise applications, GF provides a Resource Grammar Library (RGL), which defines the basic syntax, morphology, and lexicon of languages in the form of easily usable software libraries.The RGL is an open-source collaborative project, which currently covers 30 languages with a shared tree structure.Chinese, in addition to basic RGL, has a translation lexicon of over 30,000 lemmas and a mobile translation app.This paper gives an overview of GF, emphasizing applications where Chinese is related to other languages.We also address the theoretical question how Chinese fits into the framework with a shared tree structure.