(As a replying to James Christian's mail about his project on generation grammar, which I mistakenly sent only to him and not to the list)
In this case, James, start, please. Now, I do not know whether this can be done within b-hebrew list or rather privately... Dear b-hebrew Moderators, what is your mind and/or advice? Could James's project or proposal be interesting for b-hebrew list members in a general way? Pere Porta (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) On 10 June 2010 09:55, James Christian <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I don't how familiar everybody is with theories of generation grammar. In a > nutshell theories of generation grammar can be summarised as follows. There > is a set of words and rules which describe any given natural language. > Given > a correctly defined set of words and rules the generation grammar will > accept all grammatically correct utterances of that language and reject ill > formed utterances. > > Attempts to form a generation grammar for any given language generally > suffer from problems of over generation and under generation. Over > generation is when the grammar is poorly defined and, as such, accepts ill > formed utterances as well formed utterances. Under generation is when the > grammar rejects utterances which are known to be well formed. > > Testing of generation grammars consists of having two different test sets. > One test set of well formed utterances and the other of ill formed > utterances. The goal is that the grammar we define will accept the > utterances known to be well formed and reject the utterances known to be > poorly formed. > > If we were to extend this method to b-hebrew we already have a corpus of > utterances we can consider to be well formed. Defining a corpus of ill > formed phrases is a little more difficult as informants are lacking. > > I was toying with the idea of encouraging fans of b-hebrew to put their > theoretical knowledge into practice by playing with building a generation > grammar of b-hebrew using a simple linguist friendly Prolog driven > interface. I just wanted to get a quick idea of numbers of who may be > interested in participating in such an experiment. Please let your students > etc. know about the prospect and get them to write to me either on or off > list so that I can get an idea of whether it would be worth putting this > together. > > James Christian > _______________________________________________ > b-hebrew mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew > _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
