The purpose of this paper is to re-examine the balance between clarity and efficiency in HPSG design, with particular reference to the design decisions made in the English Resource Grammar (LinGO, 1999, ERG). It is argued that a simple generalization of the conventional delay statements used in logic programming is sufficient to restore much of the functionality and concomitant benefit that the...

This study looks into the terminologies (police lingo) in write-ups of Bachelor Science Law Enforcement Administration fourth-year students to illustrate categorical and descriptive meanings words used narratives, identify errors usage, find out inaccuracies application mechanics writing like correct spelling, capitalization, abbreviation, punctuation marks. Twenty-six (26) (BSLEAD) participated...

Although Nogo-A has been intensively studied for its inhibitory effect on axonal regeneration in the adult central nervous system, little is known about its function during brain development. In the embryonic mouse cortex, Nogo-A is expressed by radial precursor/glial cells and by tangentially migrating as well as postmigratory neurons. We studied radially migrating neuroblasts in wild-type and...

This work describes the implementation of a meta-modeling approach to morphologically marked tense and aspect within the LinGO Grammar Matrix customization system. The Matrix customization system creates a small hpsg grammar for a language based on answers to questions about particular linguistic phenomena. In the original system, these answers indicated a choice of pre-determined analyses of t...

The LinGO Redwoods initiative is a seed activity in the design and development of a new type of treebank. While several mediumto large-scale treebanks exist for English (and for other major languages), pre-existing publicly available resources exhibit the following limitations: (i) annotation is mono-stratal, either encoding topological (phrase structure) or tectogrammatical (dependency) inform...

Dr Hatcher expresses concern about the use of the abbreviation ‘PWE’ rather than the phrase ‘person with epilepsy’, which he considers an offensive and stigmatising practice. As a researcher on stigma, I have some sympathy with Dr Hatcher’s position – to be abbreviated is a state unlikely to be welcomed by any of us, whether we have epilepsy or any other condition of human being. Dr Hatcher mak...

Language CoLLAGE is a collection of grammatical descriptions developed in the context of a grammar engineering graduate course with the LinGO Grammar Matrix. These grammatical descriptions include testsuites in well-formed interlinear glossed text (IGT) format, high-level grammatical characterizations called ‘choices files’, HPSG grammar fragments (capable of parsing and generation), and docume...