TuLiPA: Towards a Multi-Formalism Parsing Environment for Grammar Engineering

TL;DR

TuLiPA is an open-source parsing environment that uses Range Concatenation Grammar as a pivot to support multiple mildly context-sensitive formalisms, enabling syntactic and semantic parsing for languages like German.

Contribution

It introduces a flexible, multi-formalism parsing platform that integrates various grammar formalisms and supports semantic computation, advancing grammar engineering tools.

Findings

Supports multiple grammar formalisms including TAG and TT-MCTAG

Enables parsing and semantic representation extraction

Applied to develop a German grammar

Abstract

In this paper, we present an open-source parsing environment (Tuebingen Linguistic Parsing Architecture, TuLiPA) which uses Range Concatenation Grammar (RCG) as a pivot formalism, thus opening the way to the parsing of several mildly context-sensitive formalisms. This environment currently supports tree-based grammars (namely Tree-Adjoining Grammars, TAG) and Multi-Component Tree-Adjoining Grammars with Tree Tuples (TT-MCTAG)) and allows computation not only of syntactic structures, but also of the corresponding semantic representations. It is used for the development of a tree-based grammar for German.