Modular Grammar & Dialog Systems

Notes:

A modular grammar is a type of grammar that is composed of a set of independent, modular units, each of which represents a specific aspect or rule of the grammar. Modular grammars are used in natural language processing and dialog systems to represent and analyze the structure and meaning of sentences and phrases in a language.

Modular grammars are useful in dialog systems because they allow the system to represent and analyze the structure and meaning of sentences in a more flexible and robust way. By breaking down sentences into independent, modular units, the system can more easily identify and handle different grammatical constructions, and can more accurately interpret the meaning of sentences.

For example, a modular grammar may represent a sentence as a set of independent units, each of which represents a different part of speech (such as nouns, verbs, and adjectives), a grammatical role (such as subject and object), or a semantic relation (such as cause and effect). This allows the system to more easily identify and analyze the structure and meaning of the sentence, and to generate more accurate and appropriate responses in a dialog.

Resources:

Aarne Ranta’s Homepage (DBLP)

Modular grammar engineering in GF [PDF] from psu.edu A Ranta – Research on Language & Computation, 2007 – Springer … 2.12). 123 Page 7. Modular Grammar Engineering in GF 139 … Fig. 4 Multiple inheritance in a dialogue system concrete GeomEng of Geom = LogicEng ** { lin Intersect xy = {s = xs ++ “intersects” ++ ys} ; — etc } The structure of the resulting grammar is given in Fig. 2. … Cited by 27 – Related articles – BL Direct – All 9 versions

[PDF] Implementing controlled languages in GF [PDF] from ceur-ws.org A Ranta… – CNL, 2009 – ceur-ws.org … Ranta, A. (2007). Modular Grammar Engineering in GF. Research on Language and Computation 5, 133-158. Ranta, A. and R. Cooper (2004). Dialogue Systems as Proof Editors. Journal of Logic, Language and Information 13, 225-240. Cited by 6 – Related articles – View as HTML – All 4 versions

PGF: A Portable Run-Time Format for Type-Theoretical Grammars [PDF] from chalmers.se K Angelov, B Bringert… – Journal of Logic, Language and …, 2010 – Springer Page 1. J Log Lang Inf (2010) 19:201-228 DOI 10.1007/s10849-009-9112-y PGF: A Portable Run-time Format for Type-theoretical Grammars Krasimir Angelov · Björn Bringert · Aarne Ranta Published online: 15 December 2009 (c) Springer Science+Business Media BV 2009 … Cited by 11 – Related articles – All 7 versions

Grammar development in GF [PDF] from aclweb.org A Ranta, K Angelov… – Proceedings of the 12th Conference of …, 2009 – dl.acm.org … 2007. Dialogue System Localization with the GF Resource Grammar Library. In SPEECHGRAM 2007: ACL Workshop on Grammar-Based Approaches to Spo- ken Language Processing, June 29, 2007, Prague. … 2007. Modular Grammar Engi- neering in GF. … Cited by 2 – Related articles – All 16 versions

Grammars as software libraries A Ranta – 2008 – Citeseer … 6, Modular Grammar Engineering – Ranta – 2007. 5, Lambda Grammars and the Syntax-Semantics Interface – Muskens – 2001. 5, Dialogue system localization with the GF resource grammar library – Perera, Ranta – 2004. 4, Embedded grammars – Bringert – 2005. … Cited by 5 – Related articles – Cached – All 2 versions

A grammar formalism for specifying ISU-based dialogue systems [PDF] from gu.se P Ljunglöf, S Larsson – Advances in Natural Language Processing, 2008 – Springer … Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2000) 10. Ranta, A.: Modular grammar engineering in GF. Research on Language and Com- putation 5(2), 133-158 (2007) 11. Bringert, B., Cooper, R., Ljunglöf, P., Ranta, A.: Multimodal dialogue system grammars. … Cited by 5 – Related articles – All 8 versions

GF: A Multilingual Grammar Formalism A Ranta – Language and Linguistics Compass, 2009 – Wiley Online Library … different languages. They are also a powerful tool for natural language engineering, used for applications ranging from a translator of mathematical exercises to a dialogue system usable for talking with devices in a car. As a … Cited by 5 – Related articles – All 3 versions

[PDF] Grammars as software libraries [PDF] from chalmers.se A Ranta – Y. Bertot, G. Huet, J.-J. Lévy, and G. Plotkin, eds., From …, 2009 – cse.chalmers.se … `a la mémoire de Gilles Kahn Abstract Grammars of natural languages are needed in programs like natural language interfaces and dialogue systems, but also more generally, in soft- ware localization. Writing grammar implementations is a highly special- ized task. … Cited by 11 – Related articles – View as HTML – All 7 versions

[PDF] Editing Syntax Trees on the Surface [PDF] from gu.se P Ljunglöf – 2011 – clt.gu.se … It is a high-level grammar for- malism with good support for both multilingual and modular grammar writing (Ranta, 2009a). … 6.2.2 Robust parsing Another possible application can be robust parsing for limited-domain dialogue systems. … Cited by 1 – Related articles – View as HTML – All 6 versions

[PDF] The abstract-concrete syntax distinction and unification in multilingual grammar [PDF] from psu.edu R Cooper – Resourceful Language Technology, 2008 – Citeseer … 49-56. Perera, N. and A. Ranta (2007). Dialogue system localization with the dialogue system localization with the GF resource grammar library. … Ranta, A.(2007). Modular grammar engineering in GF. Research on Lan- guage and Computation 5 (2), 133-158. … Cited by 2 – Related articles – View as HTML – All 14 versions

[PDF] Speech recognition grammar compilation in Grammatical Framework [PDF] from upenn.edu B Bringert – Proceedings of the workshop on grammar-based …, 2007 – acl.ldc.upenn.edu … et al., 2006), our work uses a type-theoretical grammar formalism with a focus on multilinguality and modular grammar development, and … We conclude by giving references to a number of experimental dialogue systems which already use our grammar compiler for generating … Cited by 14 – Related articles – View as HTML – All 30 versions

[PDF] Natural languages as collections of resources [PDF] from psu.edu R Cooper… – Language in Flux: Relating Dialogue Coordination …, 2008 – Citeseer … Perera, N. and A. Ranta (2007) Dialogue System Localization with the GF Re- source Grammar Library, Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Grammar- Based Approaches to … Ranta, A. (2007) Modular Grammar Engineering in GF, Research on Language and Computation, Vol … Cited by 9 – Related articles – View as HTML – All 8 versions

[PDF] Multimodal dialogue system grammars [PDF] from chalmers.se B Bringert, R Cooper, P Ljunglöf… – Proceedings of DIALOR, 2005 – cse.chalmers.se … This enables the dialogue system developer to reuse previous grammar or modal interaction implementa- tions without herself having to reprogram the details for each new dialogue system. Thus Page 8. … A. Ranta. 2005. Modular Grammar Engineering in GF. … Cited by 18 – Related articles – View as HTML – All 13 versions

Type-theoretical Bulgarian grammar K Angelov – Advances in Natural Language Processing, 2008 – Springer … Despite this GF has been proven useful for dialog systems, text generation applications and for software localization where a well defined controlled lan- guage is used. … John Benjamins Publishing Company (June 2007) 4. Ranta, A.: Modular Grammar Engineering in GF. … Cited by 7 – Related articles – All 4 versions

The GF resource grammar library [PDF] from elanguage.net A Ranta – Linguistic Issues in Language Technology, 2009 – cyberling.elanguage.net … The library can be used as a resource for language processing tasks, such as translation, multilingual generation, software localization, natural language interfaces, and spoken dialogue systems. … The TALK project on spoken dialogue systems (Ljunglöf et al., 2006) Page 16. … Cited by 19 – Related articles – All 13 versions

[PDF] Modular Grammars for Speech Recognition in Ontology-Based Dialogue Systems [PDF] from dfki.de HM Kosinowski – 2010 – dfki.de Abstract In the present work we show an approach for writing modular grammars for an ontology-based dialogue system. They are written for the ambient intelligence bathroom environment of the IKS project. After giving a general introduction to the field of speech … Related articles – View as HTML

Intelligent portal engine JB Elad, AH Johnson, DS Cleaver… – US Patent …, 2011 – Google Patents … on Arti?cial Intelligence, 1998, pp. 580-587. George Ferguson et al., “Generic Plan Recognition for Dialogue Systems,” ARPA Workshop on Human Language Technology, Mar. 21-23, 1993, 7 pgs. AF Dragoni et al., “Distributed … Related articles – All 2 versions

[BOOK] GF Runtime System [PDF] from chalmers.se K Angelov – 2009 – cse.chalmers.se Page 1. THESIS FOR THE DEGREE OF LICENTIATE OF ENGINEERING GF Runtime System Krasimir Angelov Department of Computer Science and Engineering Chalmers University of Technology and Göteborg University SE-412 96 Göteborg Sweden Göteborg, 2009 Page 2 … Related articles – View as HTML – Library Search – All 4 versions

A Grammar Formalism for Specifying ISU-Based Dialogue Systems PL Sta?anLarsson – … 2008, Gothenburg, Sweden, August 25-27, …, 2008 – books.google.com … Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2000) 10. Ranta, A.: Modular grammar engineering in GF. Research on Language and Com- putation 5 (2), 133-158 (2007) 11. Bringert, B., Cooper, R., Ljunglof, P., Ranta, A.: Multimodal dialogue system grammars. … Related articles

[PDF] The GF Grammar Compiler [PDF] from loria.fr A Ranta – ESSLLI 2007, 2007 – folli.loria.fr … 14. N. Perera and A. Ranta. Dialogue System Localization with the GF Resource Grammar Library. … The Journal of Functional Programming, 14 (2): 145-189, 2004. 20. A. Ranta. Modular Grammar Engineering in GF. Research on Language and Computation, 2007. To appear. … Related articles – View as HTML – All 10 versions

[BOOK] Handbook of pragmatics J Verschueren, JO Östman… – 2007 – books.google.com Page 1. HANDBOOK OF PRAGMATICS 2007 installment ISBN 978 90 272 3245 8 789027 232458 Page 2. Page 3. Cover sheet HANDBOOK OF PRAGMATICS 2007 installment Please insert the enclosed articles in the appropriate … Cited by 153 – Related articles – Library Search – All 10 versions

[PDF] Compiling Grammar-based Speech Application Components [PDF] from chalmers.se B Bringert – 2007 – cse.chalmers.se … 10 4.3 Publication . . . . . 12 5 Paper II: Multimodal Dialogue System Grammars . . . . . 12 5.1 An Example . . . . . … 36 Paper II: Multimodal Dialogue System Grammars 43 1 Introduction . . . . . … Cited by 1 – Related articles – View as HTML – All 10 versions

GF parallel resource grammars and Russian [PDF] from upenn.edu J Khegai – Proceedings of the COLING/ACL on Main conference …, 2006 – dl.acm.org … References B. Bringert, R. Cooper, P. Ljunglöf, and A. Ranta. 2005. Multimodal Dialogue System Grammars. In DIALOR’05, Nancy, France. DA Burke and K. Johannisson. … A. Ranta. to appear. Modular Grammar Engineer- ing in GF. Research in Language and Computa- tion. … Cited by 8 – Related articles – All 16 versions

[PDF] Grammatical Framework (GF) for MT in sublanguage domains [PDF] from mt-archive.info J Khegai – Proceedings of EAMT-2006, 11th Annual conference of …, 2006 – mt-archive.info … In SITE 2006, Orlando, USA. (webalt.math.helsinki.fi/content/ e16/e301/e512/PosterDemoWebALT. pdf) Cooper, R., & Ranta, A. (2004). Dialogue systems as proof editors. … (www.cs.chalmers.se/~ aarne/GF/) Ranta, A. (to appear, 2005). Modular Grammar Engineering in GF. … Cited by 4 – Related articles – View as HTML – All 6 versions

Type Theory and Universal Grammar [PDF] from revues.org A Ranta – … Scientiæ. Travaux d’histoire et de …, 2006 – philosophiascientiae.revues.org … Ranta, A. & Cooper, R. 2004 Dialogue Systems as Proof Editors, Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 13, 225-240. Ranta, A. 2005 Modular Grammar Engineering in GF, Research on Language and Computation, to appear. … Cited by 3 – Related articles – All 8 versions

[BOOK] Programming Language Techniques for Natural Language Applications [PDF] from gu.se B Bringert – 2008 – gupea.ub.gu.se … Paper II: Multimodal Dialogue System Grammars 49 … Systems which are not multimodal are called unimodal. Interactive speech applications have long been a staple of science fiction. Figures 1 and 2 illustrate two such applications: a speech translator, and a dialogue system. … Cited by 2 – Related articles – Library Search – All 14 versions

[PDF] The TALK grammar library: an integration of GF with TrindiKit [PDF] from gu.se P Ljunglöf, B Bringert, R Cooper, AC Forslund… – Deliverable D, 2005 – ling.gu.se … Author(s) Peter Ljunglöf (editor), Björn Bringert, Robin Cooper, Ann- Charlotte Forslund, David Hjelm, Rebecca Jonsson, Staffan Larsson and Aarne Ranta EC Project Officer Evangelia Markidou Keywords grammar, multilingual, dialogue systems, Grammatical Framework … Cited by 7 – Related articles – View as HTML – All 10 versions

Intelligent portal engine JB Elad, AH Johnson, DS Cleaver… – US Patent …, 2006 – Google Patents … on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 580-587, 1998. Ferguson, G., and Allen, J., Generic Plan Recognition for Dialogue Systems, ARPA Workshop on Human Language Technology, Princeton, NJ, 1993. Dragoni, AF, Giorgini, P., and … Cited by 29 – Related articles – All 2 versions

[PDF] Development of multimodal and multilingual grammars: viability and motivation [PDF] from psu.edu B Bringert, R Cooper, P Ljunglöf… – Deliverable D1. 2a, TALK …, 2004 – Citeseer … In continued work, GF has been used in areas like software specifications (Hähnle et al., 2002) and dialogue systems (Ranta and Cooper, 2004). … Modules can extend other modules by adding new definitions, thus opening the possibilities for modular grammar engineering. … Cited by 3 – Related articles – All 12 versions

[BOOK] Language Engineering in Grammatical Framework (GF) [PDF] from psu.edu J Khegai – 2006 – Citeseer Page 1. Thesis for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Language Engineering in Grammatical Framework (GF) Janna Khegai Department of Computing Science Chalmers University of Technology and Göteborg University SE-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden … Cited by 2 – Related articles – View as HTML – Library Search – BL Direct – All 11 versions

[BOOK] Expressivity and complexity of the Grammatical Framework [PDF] from chalmers.se P Ljunglöf – 2004 – cse.chalmers.se … grammar level with the abstract syntax of another level. As an example we could have a spoken dialogue system with a semantical, a syntactical, a morphological and a phonological level. This sys- tem has to define three mappings … Cited by 37 – Related articles – View as HTML – Library Search – All 14 versions

[PDF] Domain action classification and argument parsing for interlingua-based spoken language translation [PDF] from cmu.edu CT Langley – 2003 – lti.cs.cmu.edu Page 1. Domain Action Classification and Argument Parsing for Interlingua-Based Spoken Language Translation Chad T. Langley October 2003 Language Technologies Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon … Cited by 4 – Related articles – View as HTML – All 8 versions

[PDF] Constituent Charting for Discourse Analysis: Information Model and Presentation Model [PDF] from huttar.net LA Huttar, GF Simons, SJJ Hwang… – 2003 – huttar.net Page 1. Page 2. Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics Thesis Approval Sheet This thesis, entitled Constituent Charting for Discourse Analysis: Information Model and Presentation Model written by Lars Andrew Huttar and submitted … Related articles – View as HTML – All 5 versions