An HPSG-based Shared-Grammar for the Chinese Languages: ZHONG [|]

• Main Authors: Fan, Zhenzhen, Song, Sanghoun, Bond, Francis
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/80382; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40507; https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/An-HPSG-based-Shared-Grammar-for-the-Chinese-Fan-Sanghoun/87cd03059d5814bf569fac735a94445a1514398b
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper introduces our attempts to model the Chinese language using HPSG and MRS. Chinese refers to a family of various languages including Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Min, etc. These languages share a large amount of structure , though they may differ in orthogra-phy, lexicon, and syntax. To model these, we are building a family of grammars: ZHONG [ ]. This grammar contains in-stantiations of various Chinese languages, sharing descriptions where possible. Currently we have prototype grammars for Cantonese and Mandarin in both simplified and traditional script, all based on a common core. The grammars also have facilities for robust parsing, sentence generation , and unknown word handling.