20 years of the Grammar Matrix: cross-linguistic hypothesis testing of increasingly complex interactions

Olga Zamaraeva; Chris Curtis; Guy Emerson; Antske Fokkens; Michael  Goodman; Kristen Howell; T.J. Trimble; Emily M. Bender

doi:10.15398/jlm.v10i1.292

20 years of the Grammar Matrix: cross-linguistic hypothesis testing of increasingly complex interactions

Authors

Olga Zamaraeva Universidade da Coruña
Chris Curtis Firemuse Research
Guy Emerson University of Cambridge
Antske Fokkens Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Eindhoven University of Technology
Michael Wayne Goodman LivePerson Inc.
Kristen Howell LivePerson Inc.
T.J. Trimble Independent scholar
Emily M. Bender University of Washington

Keywords:

HPSG, grammar engineering, typology, hypothesis testing

Abstract

The Grammar Matrix project is a meta-grammar engineering framework expressed in Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) and Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS). It automates grammar implementation and is thus a tool and a resource for linguistic hypothesis testing at scale. In this paper, we summarize how the Grammar Matrix grew in the last decade and describe how new additions to the system have made it possible to study interactions between analyses, both monolingually and cross-linguistically, at new levels of complexity.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15398/jlm.v10i1.292

Full article

Published

2022-10-20

How to Cite

Zamaraeva, O., Curtis, C., Emerson, G., Fokkens, A., Goodman, M. ., Howell, K., Trimble, T., & Bender, E. M. (2022). 20 years of the Grammar Matrix: cross-linguistic hypothesis testing of increasingly complex interactions. Journal of Language Modelling, 10(1), 49–137. https://doi.org/10.15398/jlm.v10i1.292