Latest documents http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/index/index/ Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:41:01 +0000 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:41:01 +0000 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/23680 A significant problem when translating Japanese dialogues into German is the missing information on number and definiteness in the Japanese analysis output. The integration of the search for such information into the transfer process provides an efficient solution. General transfer includes conditions to make it possible to consider external knowledge. Thereby, grammatical and lexical knowledge of the source language, knowledge of lexical restrictions on the target language, domain knowledge and discourse knowledge are accessible. Melanie Siegel conferenceobject http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/23680 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:41:01 +0000 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/9931 The ACL 2008 Workshop on Parsing German features a shared task on parsing German. The goal of the shared task was to find reasons for the radically different behavior of parsers on the different treebanks and between constituent and dependency representations. In this paper, we describe the task and the data sets. In addition, we provide an overview of the test results and a first analysis. Sandra Kübler article http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/9931 Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:46:14 +0100 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/9872 This paper reports on the SYN-RA (SYNtax-based Reference Annotation) project, an on-going project of annotating German newspaper texts with referential relations. The project has developed an inventory of anaphoric and coreference relations for German in the context of a unified, XML-based annotation scheme for combining morphological, syntactic, semantic, and anaphoric information. The paper discusses how this unified annotation scheme relates to other formats currently discussed in the literature, in particular the annotation graph model of Bird and Liberman (2001) and the pie-in-thesky scheme for semantic annotation. Erhard W. Hinrichs; Sandra Kübler; Karin Naumann article http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/9872 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:00:16 +0200 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/9865 Tree Adjoining Grammars (TAG) are known not to be powerful enough to deal with scrambling in free word order languages. The TAG-variants proposed so far in order to account for scrambling are not entirely satisfying. Therefore, an alternative extension of TAG is introduced based on the notion of node sharing. Considering data from German and Korean, it is shown that this TAG-extension can adequately analyse scrambling data, also in combination with extraposition and topicalization. Laura Kallmeyer; SinWon Yoon article http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/9865 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:13:56 +0200 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/9861 Existing analyses of German scrambling phenomena within TAG-related formalisms all use non-local variants of TAG. However, there are good reasons to prefer local grammars, in particular with respect to the use of the derivation structure for semantics. Therefore this paper proposes to use local TDGs, a TAG-variant generating tree descriptions that shows a local derivation structure. However the construction of minimal trees for the derived tree descriptions is not subject to any locality constraint. This provides just the amount of non-locality needed for an adequate analysis of scrambling. To illustrate this a local TDG for some German scrambling data is presented. Laura Kallmeyer article http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/9861 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:41:22 +0200