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Project description

Objective

To design and implement a computational grammar of a fragment of Modern Hebrew, focusing on inverted constructions.

Researchers

Nurit Melnik

Status

Complete

Funding

Israeli Science Foundation (grant 136/01), The Caesarea Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild Foundation Institute for Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer Science and VATAT

Abstract

In my dissertation I provided a formal analysis of verb-initial constructions in the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). An important feature of HPSG, which distinguishes it from competing frameworks, such as Chomsky's Government and Binding theory and its variants, is its underlying mathematical formalism. As such, grammatical theories in HPSG can be implemented and consequently tested against `real' data. The main objective of this project is to develop a computational implementation of the grammar which I have proposed in my dissertation and to test it against `real' corpus data.

Resources

Publications

• Nurit Melnik. Extending partial pro-drop in Modern Hebrew: A comprehensive analysis. In Stephan Müller, ed., Proceedings of the HPSG07 Conference, pages 173-193. Stanford, CA, July 2007. PDF.
• Nurit Melnik. Hybrid Agreement as a Conflict Resolution Strategy. In Stephan Müller, ed., Proceedings of the HPSG06 Conference, pages 228-246, Varna, Bulgaria, July 2006. PDF.
• Nurit Melnik. A Constructional Approach to Verb-Initial Constructions In Modern Hebrew, Cognitive Linguistics 17(2):153-198, 2006.
• Nurit Melnik. From 'hand-written' to computationally implemented HPSG theories, Research on Language and Computation 5(2):199-236, June 2007.
• Nurit Melnik. From "hand-written" to implemented HPSG theories. In Proceedings of HPSG-2005, Lisbon, Portugal, August 2005. [pdf][slides]

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