This thesis describes a number of practical experiments rather than theoretical investigations in the area of natural language processing. The basis for the work presented is Grammatical Framework (GF). It is a very complex system, which comprises among other things a grammar formalism based on type theory and its implementation written in Haskell. GF is intended for high-quality machine transl...

Without any doubt corpora are vital tools for linguistic studies and solution for applied tasks. Although corpora opportunities are very useful, there is a need of another kind of software for further improvement of linguistic research as it is impossible to process huge amount of linguistic data manually. The Sketch Engine representing itself a corpus tool which takes as input a corpus of any ...

The prevailing current view of a (symbolic, computational) grammar is basically that of a set of rewriting rules using feature-structured categories. However, whenever such a grammar is aimed at development of a realworld applied project, at least two disadvantages become clear. First, it breaks with the traditional understanding of a grammar as a network of phenomena (such as agreement, subcat...