To: seminaire-gallium-moscova@inria.fr
From: Francois.Pottier@inria.fr
Subject: SEM - INRIA : Gallium - 27/11/09 - Paris - FR

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                          I N R I A - Rocquencourt
                         Amphi Turing du bâtiment 1

                        Vendredi 27 novembre, 10h30

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                                Aarne Ranta
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                          University of Gothenburg

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           Compiling Natural Language: Recent Developments in GF
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GF (Grammatical Framework, digitalgrammars.com/gf) is a special-purpose
functional programming language designed for implementing grammars. Its
mode of functioning is similar to multi-source multi-target compilers:
by using an abstract syntax as internal representation, GF can define
meaning-preserving translations between multiple languages. There are
small GF grammars that cover almost 100 languages, while the most
comprehensive grammar set, the GF Resource Grammar Library, currently
covers 15 languages.

The talk won't presuppose any knowledge of GF or linguistics. We will start
with a quick introduction to GF and proceed to some on-going topics:

- the GF machine language PGF
- incremental parsing and grammar-preserving word prediction
- building multilingual web services with GF
- creating abd boot-strapping large-scale linguistic resources
- combining grammars with statistic language processing

We will emphasize the role of functional programming, type theory, and
compilation techniques in natural language technology, which is an area
characterized by complex structures and huge amounts of data.