Computational Linguistics in Support of Linguistic Theory

This page provides links to the slides from our presentation at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (San Francisco, CA, January 9, 2008) as well as to the various resources we mentioned in the slides.

Slides

Slides can be found here.

Projects/Resources

Note: This list is not meant to be exhaustive, instead it focuses on the projects and resources which were mentioned in our talk. We hope that this will provide an interesting starting point for exploration. Items within each category are listed in alphabetical order.

Corpora

• CHILDES: Child Language Data Exchange System
• ELRA: European Language Resources Association
• LDC: Linguistic Data Consortium
• Penn Treebank

Lexical

• FrameNet: Text annotated with semantic frames and roles
• LIFT (Lexicon Interchange FormaT): XML format for lexical information in dictionaries
• WordNet: Lexical resource sturctured around synonymy

Phonetics/Phonology

• IPA
• ToBI: Transcription standards for intonation and prosodic structure
• UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive
• PHOIBLE: PHOnetics Information Base and LExicon
• Praat: Doing phonetics by computer

OT

• Erculator: Web-based software for creating, manipulating, and formatting OT tableaux.
• HaLP: Harmonic Grammar with Linear Programming
• OTSoft: Optimality Theory Software

Interlinear Glossed Text

• EARL: Efficient Annotation of Resources by Learning
• Leipzig Glossing Rules
• ODIN: The Online Database of Interlinear Text

Grammar engineering/parsing

• DELPH-IN: Deep Linguistic Processing with HPSG
• The Grammar Matrix: Multilingual grammar configuration system (HPSG)
• Grammix: Bootable CD Rom with TRALE grammar development environment and sample HPSG grammars.
• KPML: Multilingual text generation (SFG)
• ParGram: Parallel Grammar and Parallel Semantics Projects (LFG)
• TRALE: HPSG parser
• XMG: eXtensible MetaGrammar

Typology

• Autotyp: Precision typological databases
• WALS Online: The World Atlas of Language Structures Online

General/Misc

• e-Linguistics: Promoting interoperability of linguistic data
• Ethnologue: Catalog of the world's 6,912 known living languages
• GOLD: General ontology for linguistic description
• OLAC Metadata standard: Making language resources discoverable
• NLTK: Natural Language Toolkit
• Unicode
• Unified Linguistic Annotation

Journals

• Journal of Experimental Linguistics Publishes code and data sets along with papers
• Linguistic Issues in Language Technology

Examples from other fields

• The Protein Folding Database (Biochemistry)
• Nanomaterials Database (Nanotechnology)
• National Virtual Observatory (Astronomy)

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