AGGREGATION: Automatic Generation of Grammars for Endangered Languages from Glosses and Typological Information [ctn, ing, inh]

世界语言多样性正在以惊人的速度减少，并且没有足够的资源（训练有素的实地语言学家或资金）在所有濒危语言消失之前记录它们。因此，迫切需要软件工具来支持外地语言学家的效率。 该项目将开发软件工具，通过合并两种类型的资源来帮助濒危语言的文档：由语言学家策划的语言实例集合和称为语法矩阵的跨语言计算语法资源。 其结果将是一个系统，用于创建机器可读的，或实现，语法从收集的数据和注释的领域linguisters.Implemented语法可以有助于濒危语言的文档在几个方面：语法本身提供了一个非常丰富的资源，允许语言学家探索分析的精度水平通常不会达到散文描述。 此外，实现的语法可以用于创建树库，即与句法和语义结构相关联的话语的集合。 创建树库的过程可以为领域语言学家提供有关当前分析未涵盖的语言数据方面的重要反馈。 由此产生的树库可以用来创建进一步的计算工具，也是语言类型学定性和定量工作的丰富可比数据来源，以计算上易于处理的方式在实际话语中建立更高层次的语言抽象。虽然构建实现的语法通常不在领域语言学项目的范围内，但领域语言学家确实定期创建注释的例子集合，翻译文本（称为“IGT”），它包含了广泛的语言分析的结果。该项目将进一步开发从IGT中提取类型学信息的计算方法，如RiPLes项目（Xia&刘易斯2007，刘易斯&Xia 2008）开创的方法，并将该信息与语法矩阵项目（Bender et al 2002，2010）产生的跨语言资源结合联合收割机，以创建濒危语言的实现语法。&&&致力于支持开发计算机工具和方法，以记录濒危语言。

The world's linguistic diversity is diminishing at an alarming rate, and there are not enough resources (trained field linguists or funding for them) to document all the endangered languages before they are gone. Thus there is a critical need for software tools to support the efficiency of field linguists. This project will develop software tools to assist in the documentation of endangered languages by merging two types of resources: Collections of linguistic examples curated by linguists and a cross-linguistic computational grammar resource, called the Grammar Matrix. The result will be a system for creating machine-readable, or implemented, grammars from data collected and annotated by field linguists.Implemented grammars can contribute to endangered language documentation in several ways: The grammars themselves provide a very rich resource, allowing linguists to explore analyses at a level of precision not usually achieved in prose descriptions. Furthermore, implemented grammars can be used to create treebanks, that is, collections of utterances associated with syntactic and semantic structures. The process of creating the treebank can provide important feedback to the field linguist about aspects of the linguistic data not covered by current analyses. The resulting treebanks can be used to create further computational tools and are also a rich source of comparable data for qualitative and quantitative work in linguistic typology, grounding higher-level linguistic abstractions in actual utterances in a computationally tractable fashion.While building an implemented grammar is typically not within the scope of a field linguistics project, field linguists do routinely create collections of examples of glossed, translated text (called "IGT"), which encapsulate the result of extensive linguistic analysis. This project will further develop computational methods for extracting typological information from IGT like those pioneered by the RiPLes project (Xia & Lewis 2007, Lewis & Xia 2008) and combine that information with the cross-linguistic resource produced by the Grammar Matrix project (Bender et al 2002, 2010) to create implemented grammars for endangered languages.The Division of Information & Intelligent Systems of the Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering is funding this award as part of its commitment to support the development of computational tools and methods for the documentation of endangered languages.