Building an HPSG-based Indonesian resource grammar (INDRA)

• Main Authors: Moeljadi, David, Bond, Francis, Song, Sanghoun
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Indonesian; INDRA; HPSG; MRS; Indonesia
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/80388; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40509; https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Building-an-HPSG-based-Indonesian-Resource-Grammar-Moeljadi-Bond/253af4a99614dd1ae93cf511b2db79e58bb6430d
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper presents the creation and the initial stage development of a broad-coverage Indonesian Resource Grammar (INDRA) within the framework of Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) (Pollard and Sag, 1994) and Minimal Re-cursion Semantics (MRS) (Copestake et al., 2005). At the present stage, INDRA focuses on verbal constructions and sub-categorization since they are fundamental for argument and event structure. Verbs in INDRA were semi-automatically acquired from the English Resource Grammar (ERG) (Flickinger, 2000) via Wordnet Bahasa (Nurril Hirfana Mohamed Noor et al., 2011; Bond et al., 2014). In the future, INDRA will be used in the development process of machine translation. A preliminary evaluation of INDRA on the MRS test-suite shows promising coverage.