Grammar Engineering mini-meeting

This page contains some information about the Grammar Engineering mini-meeting in Seattle, WA January 2-6 2017. As well as the discussion linked below, it led to a new page on Grammar Development.

Theme
Upsizing Grammars and Cross-lingual Learning.

Place
Glenn’s house, Capitol Hill, Seattle.

Contents

  1. Grammar Engineering mini-meeting
    1. Program
    2. Topics
    3. Participants
    4. Social Program
    5. Photos

Program

       
Day Morning 1 Afternoon 1 Afternoon 2
Monday Agenda Setting Long Distance Dependencies(FCB,FZZ) Small2Large (FCB,LMC)
Tuesday ChartMap and Redup (FCB,DVM) Learning and Malrules (SSH,FCB) Treebank (FCB,SSH)
Wednesday Definiteness (SSH,EMB) Passives Discussion (DVM,DPF) Discoursey Things (FZZ,EMB)
Thursday Lexicon Building (GCS,FZZ) Performance/Robustness (DPF,FCB) Excursion: Theo’s Chocolate Factory
Friday PhD Design (EMB,MWG) Generation Testing (MWG,LMC) Code Names

Topics

  • Revision of long distance dependencies
    • discussion of asymmetries in S/O
  • Indonesian POS and tokenization
  • Chart mapping and reduplication
  • Treebanking tips
    • web interface
    • interface with sense disambiguation
  • Generation testing
    • how to incorporate that more easily
  • Language Learning
    • NLP tools for analyzing learner’s corpora
    • Using ERG for understanding non-native speakers’ texts
    • How to create the mal-rules
      • how to learn from language corpora
      • how to group by learner-type
  • Experimental Syntax and Grammar Engineering
  • Zhong
    • definiteness
    • subjecthood
    • clefts (shi … de)
    • multiple GAPs
    • Discourse “yes, ….”
  • INDRA
    • PP
    • clitics as DET
    • number, classifiers, quantifiers
    • passive voice
    • relative clause
    • Existential ada
  • Robustness
    • making c-saw run
    • quickcheck
  • Transmitting Knowledge
    • constructions
    • other levels
  • going from small to medium to large
    • techniques for deciding what to work on next
    • what corpus to work on
    • effective use of testsuites
    • how to identify phenomena
  • PhD around a grammar
    • how to build a certain scale (NTU)
      • not the same as building a sketch grammar
    • model a phenomenon (UW)

Participants

Organizer
FrancisBond

Host
GlennSlayden

Participants

  • Emily Bender (in and out, according to other obligations)
  • MichaelGoodman (maybe not every day)
  • OlgaZamaraeva (mostly for evening fun/social and to offer help as a local; I can also provide crash space for someone)
  • SanghounSong (probably everyday 2-6)
  • FrancisBond (every day)
  • Fan Zhenzhen (every day)
  • DanFlickinger (Monday afternoon to Thursday)
  • LuisMorgadoCosta (every day)
  • DavidMoeljadi (every day)
  • Ping Xue

  • JoshuaCrowgey (Tuesday and Thursday)

    • (add your name here)

Social Program

Wednesday Evening, dinner at Olga’s.

Friday Evening (19:15-21:15): Karaoke at Rock Box,1603 Nagle Pl, Seattle, Washington 98122; Drinks beforehand at Tintagel We have a room for 8 people (a 9th can cram in, if possible, but 10+ is not allowed). Please add your name below if you plan to go:

  1. Michael
  2. Luis
  3. David
  4. Zhenzhen
  5. Francis

Photos

Sanghoun’s photos: link

Last update: 2017-01-15 by SanghounSong [edit]