C4 grammaticography colloquium: From database to treebank: Enhancing a hypertext grammar with grammar engineering

Abstract

This paper considers how implemented grammars can enhance descriptive ones. An implemented grammar encodes the analyses in machine readable form, facilitating automatic annotation of morphological, syntactic and semantic structures. A grammar augmented with a collection of such structures would enable, for example, a reader to search for items in which a PP argument fills the third most prominent semantic role.