XMG - An Expressive Formalism for Describing Tree-Based Grammars

In this paper1 we introduce eXtensible MetaGrammar, a system that facilitates the development of tree based grammars. This system includes both (1) a formal language adapted to the description of linguistic information and (2) a compiler for this language. It applies techniques of logic programming (e.g. Warren's Abstract Machine), thus providing an efficient and theoretically motivated framework for the processing of linguistic metadescriptions.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: EACL
• Authors: Yannick Parmentier, Joseph Le Roux, Benoît Crabbé
• Keywords: EACL 2006, Extensible Metagrammar, Natural Language Processing, Tree Based Grammars, Warren's Abstract Machine