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Grammar Engineering mini-meeting

This page contains some information about the Grammar Engineering mini-meeting to be held in Seattle, WA January 2-6 2017.

Theme
Upsizing Grammars and Cross-lingual Learning.

Dates
January 2 - 6 2017

Place
Capitol Hill neighborhood, near the University of Washington, Seattle

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)

Contents

1. Grammar Engineering mini-meeting
   1. Proposed Timetable
   2. Topics

Proposed Timetable

	Morning 1	Afternoon 1	Afternoon 2
Monday	Agenda Setting	Long Distance Dependencies (FCB,FZZ)	Small2Large (FCB,LMC)
Tuesday	ChartMap and Redup (FCB,DVM)	LangLearning and Malrules (SSH,FCB)	Treebank (FCB,SSH)
Wednesday	Definiteness (SSH,EMB)	Passives Discussion (DVM,FCB)	Discoursey Things (FZZ,EMB)
Thursday	Lexicon Building (GCS,FZZ)	Generation Testing (MWG,DPF)	Performance Robustness (DPF,FCB)
Friday	PhD Design (EMB,MWG)	Afternoon Underspecification	Afternoon Underspecification

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

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)