Chinese grammar engineering has been a much debated task. Whilst semantic information has been reconed crucial for Chinese syntactic analysis and downstream applications, existing Chinese treebanks lack a consistent and strict sentential semantic formalism. In this paper, we introduce a semantics oriented grammar for Chinese, designed to provide basic supports for tasks such as automatic semant...

Role and Reference Grammar is a functional theory of language which allows an input text to be represented in terms of its logical structure. In order to go beyond the core grammar, the Lexical Constructional Model, which is grounded on the previous theoretical model, provides a fine-grained description of all aspects involved in meaning construction. This paper explores the integration of FunG...

Incremental sentence generation imposes special constraints on the representation of the grammar and the design of the formulator (the module which is responsible for constructing the syntactic and morphological structure). In the model of natural speech production presented here, a formalism called Segment Grammar (SG; Kempen, 1987) is used for the representation of linguistic knowledge. One b...

The development of large grammars is inherently complex and can hardly be achieved using standard text editors. Although, e.g., emacs can be programmed to support this task to a certain extent, special-purpose functionalities are indispensable. Otherwise the increasing effort for the development and maintenance of large grammars may severely limit their applicability. To avoid this pitfall in t...

We present a simple, data-driven approach to generation from knowledge bases (KB). A key feature of this approach is that grammar induction is driven by the extended domain of locality principle of TAG (Tree Adjoining Grammar); and that it takes into account both syntactic and semantic information. The resulting extracted TAG includes a unification based semantics and can be used by an existing...

The so-called serial verb construction (SVC) is a complex predicate structure consisting of two or more verbal heads but denotes one single event. This paper first discusses the grammatical properties of Korean SVCs and provides a lexicalist, constructionbased analysis couched upon a typed-feature structure grammar. We also show the results of implementing the grammar in the LKB (Linguistics Kn...