Grammar Engineering Glossary

To the reader

These pages have been prepared in the context of Linguistics 567, "Knowledge Engineering for Deep NLP", at the University of Washington. They may well be of use to other people using the LKB (Copestake 2002), and in particular those using the Grammar Matrix. Keep in mind when reading these pages that type, feature, and file names used are particular to the context in which they were written.

For more on the LKB, see Copestake, Ann. 2002. Implementing Typed Feature Structure Grammars. Stanford: CSLI Publications.

We are also developing a FAQ.

I welcome suggestions for new topics to cover and corrections to the content presented here. I can be reached on the web here, or by email at ebender at u dot washington dot edu.

Wiki participants

If there's a term you'd like defined, please add it, and then email me/the class so we know it's been added. Please feel free to contribute definitions as well. Please refer to existing definitions for formatting.

Symbols

• # (hash)
• ,
• .
• [ ]
• < >
• < ! ! >
• &
• :=
• :+
• "
• ;
• ...

A

• Adjunct
• Agreement
• Aspect

B

• Buffer

C

• Case
• CAT
• Chart
• COMPS
• Complement
• CONT
• Coref

D

• Declare (a feature)
• Difference list

E

• Edge (see also lexical edge, spanning edge)
• emacs

F

• Feature
• Feature structure (include outermost feature structure)
• FIRST
• FORM

G

H

• Handle
• Handle constraint
• HCONS
• Head
• Head daughter
• HEAD
• HOOK
• HPSG

I

• Identity constraint
• INDEX
• INFLECTED
• Interactive unification

J

K

L

• LAST
• Lexeme
• Lexeme-to-lexeme rule
• Lexeme-to-word rule
• Lexical edge
• LIGHT
• LinGO?
• Lisp
• LIST
• LKB
• LOCAL
• LTOP

M

• Matrix (see Grammar Matrix)
• MOD
• Modifier
• MOOD

N

• NON-HEAD-DTR
• NON-LOCAL
• Null

O

P

• Parse
• Parse chart (see chart)
• Path (name)

Q

• qeq

R

• relation
• RELS
• REST
• Root condition

S

• Scope
• Sign
• Span
• Spanning edge
• SPEC
• Specifier
• SPR
• Subtype
• SUBJ
• Supertype
• SYNSEM

T

• TAM
• tdl
• Tense
• Type

U

• Underspecification
• Unification

V

• VAL
• Valence

W

X

• XARG

Y

Z

-- EmilyBender - 25 Mar 2006