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HPSG-based Syntactic Treebank of
Bulgarian
(BulTreeBank)
The main objective of BulTreeBank Project is to create a high quality set of syntactic structures of Bulgarian sentences within the framework of HPSG. Ideally, the tree bank should contain samples of all the syntactic structures of the language. These sentences should serve as templates for future corpora development, could become the basis for the development of a more comprehensive test suite for NLP applications, can be used as a source for grammar extraction and for linguistic research. The development of such a tree bank is inextricably linked to the development of a formal grammar and a parser for Bulgarian. We propose to write two grammars for Bulgarian, none of them exhaustive, but in our view a necessary stage on the way to a complete formal grammar of the language: one imposing very general constraints on the syntactic structure and one for partial parsing. Within the project we will prolong the development of CLaRK system - XML-based system for corpora development.
The BulTreeBank Project is based at the Linguistic Modelling Laboratory (LML), Institute for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The project is funded by the Volkswagen Stiftung, Federal Republic of Germany under the Programme "Cooperation with Natural and Engineering Scientists in Central and Eastern Europe". The work on the project will be carried out mainly at LML in tight cooperation with researchers at the Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft (SfS), Eberhard-Karls-Universitä t, Tübingen, Germany. People responsible for the project are Prof. Dr. Erhard Hinrichs from SfS and Kiril Simov from LML.
Нова книга
Петя Осенова, Кирил Симов. Формална граматика на българския език. Институт по паралелна обработка на информацията - БАН. София, 18. 12. 2007 г. (Formal Grammar of Bulgarian Language. IPP, BAS.)
Възможност за работа:
Търсим млади хора за работа по нови международни проекти. Основни изисквания: програмиране на JAVA, английски език, желание за научна работа в областта на обработката на естествен език и онтологиите (Semantic Web). Желаещите да пишат на: Кирил Симов.
CLaRK system - XML-based system for corpora development
The core of CLaRK is an XML Editor, which is the main interface to the system. Besides the XML language itself, we implemented an XPath language for navigation in documents and an XSLT language for transformation of XML documents. CLaRK is based on an Unicode encoding of the information inside the system. The basic mechanism of CLaRK for linguistic processing of text corpora is the cascaded regular grammar processor. Several mechanisms for imposing constraints over XML documents are available. The constraints cannot be stated by the standard XML technology.
Technical Reports
Project Members
We would like to thank Gergana Popova (PhD student, Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex) and Atanas Kiryakov (Head of OntoText Lab.) for their help in preparation of the proposal of the project. We would like to thank Dr. Frank Richter from SfS for his contribution to our better understanding of the last trends in HPSG during his visit at the Linguistic Modelling Laboratory at the beginning of the BulTreeBank Project.
Principle researcher in Computational Linguistics and Represented Knowledge - CLaRK (Project leader)
Researcher in Syntax, Semantics, Corpus Linguistics
Sia Kolkovska
Researcher in Syntax, Lexicography
Doctoral student in Formal Linguistics, Syntax
Research associate in Computer Science and Computational Linguistics
PhD student in information and communication technology in Trento, Italy
Research associate in Computer Science and Computational Linguistics
Dimitar Doikoff
Master's student in Computational Linguistics
Ilko Grigorov
Master's student in Computer Science
Hristo Ganev
Master's student in Computer Science
Expected Results
- Inside the TreeBank a core set of sentences will be designated. The purpose of this core set of sentences is to serve as a test-suite for software application processing texts on Bulgarian on the level of syntactic descriptions.
- Reliable partial grammar for automatic parsing of phrases in Bulgarian. This grammar will be extensively tested and used during the creation of the TreeBank. It will be used as a module separate from the TreeBank in tasks which require only partial parsing of natural language texts such as Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Data Mining from Texts and etc.
- Software modules for compiling, manipulating and exploring the data in the TreeBank. This software will support both the creation of the TreeBank, and its use for different purposes such as automatic extraction of grammars for Bulgarian.
Contacts
Kiril Simov
BulTreeBank Project
Linguistic Modelling Laboratory, IPP,
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Acad. G.Bonchev St. 25A
1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
Tel: (+359 2) 979 2825
Fax: (+359 2) 870 72 73
www.BulTreeBank.org