Re: [lkb] Getting Parse results from LKB

Bernhard Fisseni wrote:
> Good evening,
>
> for a course on accesibility in the WWW, a colleague of mine and I (me)
> we wanted to try GG as the grammar for German to avoid re-inventing
> the grammar wheel; using LKB or pet to interface it with a tts system
> seemed a good idea.
>
Dear Bernhard,

this looks like a very interesting application. If you need any=20
information grammar-wise, feel free to contact me.

Somewhat related to your TTS scenario, there  is  a most recent MA =20
thesis submitted by Philipp von B=C3=B6selager at Cologne University=20
(Phonetik/Sprachliche Informationsverarbeitung), where he  interfaced =20
GG (in generation mode)  with the MARY text-to-speech system, using the =20
grammar as the basis for disambiguating prosody in a CTS setting. The=20
component takes HPSG trees ("functional" rule back bone and labelled=20
PS-tree) as input to XSLT style sheets that insert prosodic mark-up for=20
the MARY TTS-engine. He also ran experiments on the disambiguation=20
effect of the synthesized prosody with some good results. If you are=20
interested in this work, I can let him know.

Cheers,

Berthold
> But for some reason, I don't find the part of the documentation of
> either programme that tells me whether there is any way to easily acces=
s
> the syntactic representation[2] "from the outside" (e.g. the tty
> interface of LKB), getting some plain text or even XML output?  (I'm
> probably searching for documentation in the wrong places =E2=80=93 sorr=
y!)
>
> Could you help me and tell me how to access the syntactic
> representation?  Or would it be a good idea to have a look at trollet o=
r
> the lkb web server and modify what they do (they seem to have access to
> syntactic information)?  (And, is there any chance to arrive at a
> working GUIless LKB with clisp or sbcl in the very near future?)
>
> I'd be grateful for any hints,
> Bernhard
>
> [1]  Using the binary LKB under Linux would be nice because it installe=
d
> quite nicely.
>
> [2] For the moment, syntactic structures seem a bit more important to u=
s
> than semantics.  It's just too difficult to pronounce MRSes. ;-)
>