DelphinWashington

The [http://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/ Treehouse] is Computational Linguistics Laboratory in the [http://depts.washington.edu/lingweb Department of Linguistics] at [http://www.washington.edu the University of Washington]. DELPH-IN related work at the Treehouse includes development of the [http://www.delph-in.net/matrix LinGO Grammar Matrix] and the [http://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/Montage the Montage project].

The LinGO Grammar Matrix, developed in collaboration with DelphinStanford and DelphinOslo, is a starter-kit for the rapid prototyping of scaleable precision grammars. Initial development of the Matrix was based on the [http://www.delph-in.net/erg/ LinGO English Resource Grammar] and the [http://www.delph-in.net/jacy JACY Japanese grammar]. Early versions of the Matrix were used in the development of the NorSource and Modern Greek grammars, and feedback from these projects has spurred various refinements. More recently, development has also been driven by the application of the Matix to a variety of languages in the [http://courses.washington.edu/ling567 multilingual grammar engineering course] at UW. Matrix-based grammars are all compatible with the [http://www.delph-in.net/lkb LKB] and all map surface strings to MRS representations.

The Montage project, involving UW, Stanford, and MPI Leipzig, aims to leverage recent advances in grammar engineering methodology and technology to assist field linguists in the documentation of underdescribed languages. The project pairs Matrix development with coordinated work on tools to assist linguists with ontologically-linked grammatical annotation of collected texts and the production of linguistic resources in best-practice digital archival format. In addition to benefitting from the DELPH-IN collaboration, Montage also has links to the computer-assisted linguistics and language archive communities, including [http://emeld.org E-MELD], [http://www.language-archives.org OLAC], [http://wave.ldc.upenn.edu/Projects/QLDB QLDB], and the [http://www.rosettaproject.org Rosetta Project].