[lkb] Fwd: Re: Looking for a comparative grammar

--- Detmar Meurers <[email protected]> wrote:
> Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 23:10:06 -0400
> From: Detmar Meurers <[email protected]>
> To: ahmed hafez <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Looking for a comparative grammar
> 
> Hi Ahmad,
> 
>     My reasearch is on the transfer rules of
> indirect
>     knowledge based machine translation systems. A
> HPSG
>     parser (LKB or TRALE) gives the representation
> of the
>     source language (English)to be the input of the
>     transfer rule -applies synsem transfer- that
> yields an
>     equivalent Arabic representation of the same
> English
>     sentence. The transfer rules are structured
> according
>     to a comparative grammar. I would be most
> grateful if
>     you can guide me to a suitable grammar
> 
> I'm involved with the development of TRALE, and as
> far as I know
> nobody has used the system for English <-> Arabic
> Machine
> Translation yet, i.e. I'm pretty sure no such
> comparative grammar
> exists. But Shuly Wintner has been working on
> semitic languages,
> both Hebrew and Arabic, using the TRALE system, so
> perhaps he has
> some pointers. You can contact him at
> [email protected]
> 
> Best,
> Detmar
> 
> --
> Detmar Meurers, Assistant Professor, Dept. of
> Linguistics, OSU
> 201a Oxley Hall, 1712 Neil Avenue, Columbus OH
> 43210-1298, USA
> http://ling.osu.edu/~dm/                 GnuPG key
> on web page
> 


		
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