Basic information

Course responsible: Aarne Ranta http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~aarne/

Teaching assistant: Herbert Lange 

Education coordinator: Madelaine Miller (e-post: madelaine.miller@class.gu.se)

Student Office: Matilde Eriksson (e-post: matilde.eriksson@gu.se)

GF web page: http://www.grammaticalframework.org/

GF book: http://www.grammaticalframework.org/gf-book/

GF book slides: http://www.grammaticalframework.org/gf-book/gf-book-slides.pdf

Resource grammar tutorial: http://www.grammaticalframework.org/lib/doc/rgl-tutorial/ 

Schema in TimeEdit

Official course plan: http://kursplaner.gu.se/pdf/kurs/en/LT2214

Github repository for the course: https://github.com/GrammaticalFramework/comp-syntax-gu

Programme (to be updated)

• Lecture 1: introduction to the methods and applications of computational syntax, with some hands-on coding in the GF cloud http://cloud.grammaticalframework.org/gfse/ - grammar MLT2019). Slides: the GF Ecosystem. Book chapter 1,2
• Lecture 2: Introducing the GF shell, which can be downloaded from http://www.grammaticalframework.org/download/index.html Hands-on coding with focus on morphology: https://github.com/GrammaticalFramework/comp-syntax-gu/tree/master/examples Summary of GF and how it generalizes context-free grammars. Book chapter 3,4.
• Lecture 3: GF for Python programmers (Herbert) https://daherb.github.io/GF-for-Python-programmers/
• Lecture 4: Fundamentals of syntax. Book chapter 9
• Lecture 5: Implementing a mini resource grammar https://github.com/GrammaticalFramework/comp-syntax-gu/tree/master/labs/lab1 Book chapter 9.
• Lecture 6: The GF Resource Grammar Library: http://www.grammaticalframework.org/lib/doc/synopsis.html Book chapter 10.
• Lecture 7: Application grammar programming: best practices and tutorial http://www.molto-project.eu/sites/default/files/MOLTO_D2.3.pdf, Shops example code https://github.com/GrammaticalFramework/comp-syntax-gu/tree/master/examples/shops Book chapter 5.
• Lecture 8: Abstract Syntax and Universal Dependencies: http://www.grammaticalframework.org/~aarne/ud-gf-malta-2017.pdf
• Lecture 9: Recap with last year's exam ; getting started with projects

Each lecture is around 2 hours. In addition, there are supervised tutorials (in TimeEdit, the ones in Lab4 are tutorials)

To get accepted, one has to pass the exam and do two assignments.

Exam

The exam is on 4 June at 9:00-13 in T307. It will have the same format as previous exams:

• 2018: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x7omuxKrtztWIFjs95hCI0327ahYzWZrMgOFaXKjmF0/edit?usp=sharing 
• 2017: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15Hj6q8rJIocohG5CYD0o5n7jPL7bnbe5hcKmIi21S1E/edit?usp=sharing
• 2016: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rZPazAfvECGmJMAwZtywqJyFqOvxveCnO2PELq5Es7Q/edit?usp=sharing

Like in 2017, you are allowed to take with you a cheat sheet, which is an A4 hand-written on both sides, and where you can write whatever you want. For instance, a specification of GF's rule notation.