Special Research Program (Sonderforschungsbereich 340)
"Linguistic Foundations for Computational Linguistics"

Goals

The central idea of the Sonderforschungsbereich 340 (SFB 340) is to make insights and results of linguistic theories utilizable for the development of computational linguistics. Research concentrates on the requirements and standards which have to be fulfilled in order to successfully integrate structural descriptions of linguistic phenomena and algorithmic realizations of linguistic processes within the development of language-understanding and/or language-generating systems. Altogether, the special research center consists of 15 subprojects, 6 of which are located at the IMS. The range of subjects includes theoretical syntax (GB, HPSG) and semantics (DRT) as well as their application in automatic text analysis.

Project Areas and Component Projects of the 3rd phase, 1995-1997

(A) Syntax and Semantics
- A1 (S) Thematic Control of Compositional Structures: Licensing and Serialisation of Sentences in the German 'Nachfeld' (Prof. Haider, Prof. Bierwisch)
- A3 (TÜ) Extraction and Projection in German (Prof. Reis)
- A4 (TÜ) Syntactic and Semantic Aspects of an Argument-Structural Approach to Focus Theory (Prof. Drubig)
- A5 (S) The Treatment of Variables in the Construction of Semantic Representations (Prof. Kamp, Dr. Frey)
- A7 (TÜ) Syntactic and Semantic Aspects of Reconstruction (Prof. v. Stechow, Dr. Sternefeld)
- A8 (TÜ) Domains for Grammatical Theory and Natural Language Processing (PD Dr. Mönnich)
(B) Implementation of Syntax and Semantics: Theory and Application
- B3 (S) Development and Implementation of UDRS-based Inference Procedures for the Interpretation of Texts (PD Dr. Reyle, Prof. Rohrer)
- B4 (TÜ) From Constraints to Rules: Compilation of HPSG (Prof. Hinrichs, Dr. Gerdemann)
- B7 (S, TÜ) Partial Parsing and the Acquisition of Lexical Syntax and Semantics (Dr. Rooth, Dr. Abney)
- B8 (TÜ) An HPSG-Fragment for German (Prof. Hinrichs)
- B9 (S) 1995-1997: A UDRS-based Semantic Fragment for German (Prof. Kamp,Prof. Rohrer)

C2 (HD) Knowledge Sources for the Interpretation of Mofification Structures (Dr. Herweg, PD Dr. Bosch)
C3 (S) Lexical, Rhetorical, and Logical Aspects of Discourse Interpretation (Prof Kamp, PD Dr. Reyle)
C4 (S) Aspects of Prosodic Structure for Discourse Representation Theory (Prof. Dogil)
YE1 (B) Scope of Quantifying Adverbs (Prof. Kamp, Dr. Strigin, Prof. Bierwisch)

Target Groups

Research and development organizations in the areas of natural language understanding and theoretical linguistics.

Technical Reports

The Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft at Tübingen maintains a list of SFB340 reports, many of which are available online.

Director

Prof. Dr. Christian Rohrer
Universität Stuttgart
Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung
Azenbergstrasse 12
D-70174 Stuttgart
telephone: 0711 / 121 - 1364
telefax: 0711 / 121 - 1366
email: Christian.Rohrer@IMS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE

Office

Universität Stuttgart
Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung
Sonderforschungsbereich 340
Azenbergstrasse 12
D-70174 Stuttgart
telephone: 0711 / 121 - 1352
telefax: 0711 / 121 - 1366
email:SFB340-Infos@IMS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE

Participating Institutions:

University of Stuttgart (IMS)
University of Tübingen (Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft)
IBM Germany, Scientific Center, Heidelberg
Max Planck Society, Research Group ``Structural Grammar'', Berlin

Participating Subject Areas

Computational Linguistics, computer science, logic, theoretical linguistics, semantics, theorem proving.

Special Research Program (Sonderforschungsbereich 340) "Linguistic Foundations for Computational Linguistics"