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{\large \bf 11-722: Grammar Formalisms}\\
{\large \bf Spring Term 2012}\\
{\large \bf Language Technologies Institute}\\
{\large \bf Carnegie Mellon University}\\[8pt]
{\bf Course Syllabus}\\[18pt]
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{\bf Time and Place:} & \\ 
T-Th, 3:00-4:30 & DH 1209\\
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{\bf Instructors:}& \\
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Lori Levin & Associate Research Professor\\
& Language Technologies Institute\\
& Newell-Simon Hall 4631\\
& 412-268-6193\\
& {\tt lsl@cs.cmu.edu}\\[10pt]

Alan Black & Associate Professor\\
& Language Technologies Institute\\
& 4525 Newell-Simon Hall \\
& 412-268-6299\\
& {\tt awb@cs.cmu.edu}\\
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%% {\bf Teaching Assistant} & \\
%% Rashmi Gangadharaiah & Ph.D. Student\\
%% & Language Technologies Institute\\
%% & {\tt rgangadh@andrew.cmu.edu}\\
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\noindent {\bf Prerequisites:} Permission of instructors, or
background in linguistics, computational linguistics, language
technologies, or psycholinguistics.

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{\bf Requirements:}  two implemented grammars.   One grammar will be
an English Lexical Functional Grammar.   The other will be in another
human language or another formalism.   

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{\bf Course Description:}\\[10pt] 
The goal of this course is to familiarize students with grammar
formalisms (and the underlying linguistic theories) that are commonly
used for research in computational lingusitics, language technologies,
and lingusitics.  We hope to have students from a variety disciplines
(linguistics, computer science, psychology, modern languages,
philosophy) in order to cover a broad perspective in class
discussions.  Comparison of formalisms and the underlying theories
will lead to a deeper understanding of human language, which can be of
benefit in the design of corpus based methods as well as knowledge
based methods.  \\[8pt]

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The formalisms will include: Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar,
Lexical Functional Grammar, Tree Adjoining Grammar, and Categorial
Grammar.  We may cover Penn Treebank, Prague Treebank, CCG treebank,
and other treebanks as time permits. If time permits we will also
cover grammar induction from treebanks.  \\[8pt]

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We will cover the treatment of basic syntactic and semantic
phenomena in each formalism. The phenomena include: transitivity
alternations, clause complementation, long distance dependencies, and
coordinate structures. \\[8pt]

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We will use both ``toy'' sentences (artificially constructed to
illustrate the phenomena) and real sentences from treebanks and other
sources.  

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{\bf Texts:}
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\item {\it Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction\/} by Ivan Sag, Thomas
Wasow, and Emily Bender
\item {\it Implementing Typed Feature Grammars\/}, Ann Copestake, CSLI, 2002.
\item {\it Grammar Writer's Cookbook\/}, Miriam Butt et al., CSLI, 1999
\item {\it Lexical Functional Syntax\/}, Joan Bresnan, Blackwell, 2000.
\item {\it Lexical-Functional Grammar\/}, (Syntax and Semantics, Volume 34)
by Mary Dalrymple, Academic Press.
\item Readings on CCG and TAG to be announced.
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{\Large\bf Schedule}

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January 17 & History of Grammar Formalisms\\
January 19 & The English Test Suite\\
January 24 & Lexical Functional Grammar\\
January 26 & Lexical Functional Grammar\\
January 31 & Lexical Functional Grammar\\
February 2 & Lexical Functional Grammar\\
February 7 & Lexical Functional Grammar\\
February 9 & Lexical Functional Grammar\\
February 14 & Lexical Functional Grammar\\
Feburary 16 & Lexical Functional Grammar\\
February 21 & Generative Capacity\\
February 23 & Formal Semantics\\
February 28 & Formal Semantics\\
March 1 & Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar\\
March 6 & Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar\\
March 8 & Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar\\
March 13 & Spring Break\\
March 15 & Spring Break\\
March 20 & Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar\\
March 22 & Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar\\
March 27 & Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar\\
March 29 & Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar\\
April 3 & Tree Adjoining Grammar\\
April 5 & Tree Adjoining Grammar\\
April 10 & Categorial Grammar\\
April 12 & Categorial Grammar\\
April 17 & Categorial Grammar\\
April 19 & Carnival\\
April 24 & Categorial Grammar\\
April 26 & To be announced\\
May 1 & To be announced\\
May 4 & To be announced
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