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This page is written and maintained by EmilyBender. Please send comments by email.

Overview

The LinGO Grammar Matrix is an open-source starter-kit for rapid prototyping of precision broad-coverage grammars compatible with the LKB. The Matrix thrives on input from users working on varied languages. If you're interested, please contact us --- through the mailing list, or by emailing Emily Bender at ebender at u dot washington dot edu.

The Wish List page serves as a forum for relatively informal exchange among developers and consumers, in addition to the Matrix mailing list.

There is an excellent guide] available (Flickinger, Dan, Emily M. Bender and Stephan Oepen. 2003. MRS in the LinGO Grammar Matrix: A Practical User's Guide. ms). Some of it is out of date, but it is still the best single source of information.

Details

• Matrix web site, includes publications and a list of languages

• Customization page, to customize and download a current copy of the Matrix

• http://www.delph-in.net/matrix/#where, for instructions on obtaining the customization system source code

• Matrix mailing list

• trac site: Submit bug reports here!

• Matrix-based multilingual grammar engineering course at the University of Washington, taught annually since 2004.

• The Matrix is a key component of the Montage toolkit (currently still just a bunch of good ideas), a suite of tools to assist in the documentation of grammars of underdescribed languages.

• The LKB Grammar Engineering/FAQ on the UW Treehouse wiki may be useful to those working with the Matrix.

• VersionControlForGrammarDevelopment is a wiki page detailing how to use version control systems (e.g. SVN, Mercurial) with a grammar.

• We have some examples in the short and sweet MRS Test Suites, which now exist for multiple languages.

Courses

• Emily Bender's course, University of Washington

• Petter Haugereid's course, NTNU and U. Saarlandes

• Yi Zhang's course, U. Saarlandes

• Tania Avgustinova's course, U. Saarlandes (see also http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/kvv/detailpage.php?id=1351)

• Georgetown University 2009: Ling 564, Computational Grammar Formalisms, taught by Tony Davis

• OSU 2006: LINGUIST L614, Alternative Syntactic Theories, taught by Michael Daniels

• Bender, Flickinger & Oepen's course, LSA Institute 2007

• Sag, Wasow & Bender's course, LSA Institute 2005

• Gautam Sengupta's courses, University of Hyderabad

• Francis Bond's course, Nanyang Technological University

Grammars

The Grammar Matrix has been used as the basis for the following grammars:

• The NorSource Grammar (Hellan and Haugereid, 2003)

• KRG: The Korean Resource Grammar (Kim and Yang, 2003)

• The Modern Greek Grammar (Kordoni and Neu, 2005)

• The Spanish Resource Grammar (Marimon, Bel and Seghezzi, 2007)

• LXGram: Portuguese Grammar (Branco and Costa, 2008)

• HaG (Hausa Grammar; Crysmann, 2009)

• BURGER Bulgarian

• WambayaTop: wmb (Wambaya; Bender, 2008)

• MCG Mandarin

• ManGO Mandarin

Current events

• 8/11/11: Customization system source code available

• 10/27/08: New trac site announced. Submit bug reports here! Update: trac was getting spammed. Please submit bug reports (with choices files, if appropriate) to matrix-dev -at- uw.edu.

• We are currently expanding the phenomenon libraries to include case, agreement, tense and aspect, as well as extensions to the existing libraries for word order, sentential negation, yes-no questions and coordination.

• PET now has :+.

• MatrixDevTop: Notes for Matrix developers

Acknowledgments

Work on the Grammar Matrix is currently supported by an NSF CAREER grant (BCS-0644097).