====== Grammar writing with OpenCCG ======

[[:openccg|Main UT OpenCCG page]]

This page is all about grammar writing using OpenCCG. For a repository of grammars written using the ccg-format, visit the [[http://sourceforge.net/projects/ccgcookbook|CCG cookbook]] on Sourceforge.

On this page you will find information about status of grammars being written with [[http://sourceforge.net/projects/openccg|OpenCCG]], a step-by-step tutorial for writing a small grammar, and (eventually) a more extensive grammar-writer's guide. The [[:openccg/ccggui_tut|CCG GUI tutorial]] is [[:openccg/ccggui_tut|here]], and [[:openccg/ccggui_adv|advanced topics]] in using the GUI for grammar writing are covered [[:openccg/ccggui_adv|here]].


====== Status of grammars ======

== Under construction ==
  * Ojibwe lexemic grammar, AP
  * Arabic grammar (focus on nominal morphology), BW
  * Levantine Arabic morphemic grammar (focus on negative concord phenomena, word order and pro-drop), FH
  * Spanish morphemic grammar (focus on clitic-climbing, verb morphology), FH


== Future ==
  * Dutch?
  * Turkish?
  * Ojibwe morphemic?
  * others?


== Existing ==
  * tiny (English), BW (in the CCG Cookbook this has been renamed 'sample')
  * tinytiny (English), BW (in the CCG Cookbook this has been renamed 'minisamp')

[[:openccg/grammars|Grammars]] in the wiki.


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====== Guide to grammar writing using OpenCCG ======

This user's manual is designed as a gentle guide to grammar writing with OpenCCG. It is a work in progress. Brand new users of OpenCCG might find it helpful to go through the [[:openccg/webccg_howto|WebCCG tutorial]]. WebCCG is a simplified interface to OpenCCG, introducing many of the basic concepts needed to write an OpenCCG grammar. To get familiar with the editor, check out the [[:openccg/ccggui_tut|CCG GUI tutorial]].


The manual begins with a guide to downloading, installing, and using OpenCCG. We then cover grammar writing in CCG (rather different from writing phrase-structure grammars, for example), grammar implementation using the ccg-format, and the basics of semantics in OpenCCG. Get in touch with Jason, Alexis, or Sudipta if you have problems running the software or have questions about implementing your grammar.


===== Getting started =====

  * system requirements
  * downloading and installing OpenCCG
  * architecture/file structure of the grammar
  * how and where to get more information



===== Grammar writing in CCG =====

  * core phenomena to consider
  * CCG: categories and slash modalities
  * CCG: lexicon
  * CCG: features
  * CCG: rules and derivations
  * CCG: semantics


[a lot of this stuff can wait -- part of the idea is to have a section for people who aren't familiar with CCG and what a CCG analysis looks like ... amp]

===== The CCG editor =====

For a detailed tutorial on using the CCG editor, check out the [[:ccggui|CCG GUI tutorial]].



===== Grammar implementation in OpenCCG =====

  * the ccg-format
  * lexical families & categories
  * words & morphology
  * using expansions to reduce redundancy
  * feature specification & unification
  * rules

===== Semantics and logical forms =====

  * hybrid logic dependency semantics
  * syntax & semantics interface
  * dependency relations


===== References =====


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