Saarland University
Informatics
Programming Systems
Mathias Möhl
FoPra
by Mathias Möhl
supervised by Ralph Debusmann
The goal of my FoPra is to create a German grammar for a grammar formalism which is called Topological Dependency Grammar (TDG) and was developed by Denys Duchier and Ralph Debusmann.
There already exists a small TDG grammar for German, but this grammar is handcrafted and has only a very small coverage. In this approach we try to induce a grammar from a given corpus, the Negra/Tiger corpus of German newspaper texts.
The work is mainly based on the research of Christian Korthals who has developed a system which learns parts of a TDG grammar from this corpus.
You can download the final report here.