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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 [http://faculty.washington.edu/ebender Emily Bender] at ebender at u dot washington dot edu.

The [wiki:MatrixWishList 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 http://faculty.washington.edu/ebender/papers/userguide.pdf 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 Some of it is out of date, but it is still the best single source of information.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

• [http://www.delph-in.net/matrix Matrix web site], includes publications and a list of languages

• [http://www.delph-in.net/matrix/customize/matrix.cgi Customization page], to customize and download a current copy of the Matrix

• [http://lists.delph-in.net/mailman/listinfo/matrix/ Matrix mailing list ]

• [http://lemur.ling.washington.edu/trac/matrix trac site]: Submit bug reports here!

• [http://courses.washington.edu/ling567 Matrix-based multilingual grammar engineering course] at the University of Washington, taught annually since 2004.

• The Matrix is a key component of the [http://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/Montage 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 [http://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/twiki/bin/view.cgi/Main/GrammarEngineeringFAQ LKB Grammar Engineering/FAQ] on the [http://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/twiki/bin/view.cgi/Main/WebHome UW Treehouse wiki] may be useful to those working with the Matrix.

• We have some examples in the short and sweet [wiki:MatrixMrsTestSuite MRS Test Suite]s, which now exist for multiple languages.

Courses

• [http://courses.washington.edu/ling567 Emily Bender's course], University of Washington

• [http://www.hf.ntnu.no/hf/isk/Ansatte/petter.haugereid/grammar-course.html Petter Haugereid's course], NTNU and U. Saarlandes

• [http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~yzhang/ge/ Yi Zhang's course], U. Saarlandes

• [http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~tania/slavigram/ 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

Grammars

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

• The NorSource Grammar (Hellan and Haugereid, 2003)

• [http://wiki.delph-in.net/moin/KrgTop 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)

• [http://nlxgroup.di.fc.ul.pt/lxgram/ LXGram]: Portuguese Grammar (Branco and Costa, 2008)

Current events

• 10/27/08: New trac site announced. Submit bug reports [http://lemur.ling.washington.edu/trac/matrix here]!

• 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).