TomarFuture

Discussion: The Future of DELPH-IN

Moderator: StephanOepen; Scribe: EmilyBender

Subjective Impressions

• a generation of ‘unification’ pioneers is leaving the scene;

• no (direct) contribution to current language technologies;

• interest in (and knowledge of) linguistics minimal in NLP circles;

• declining momentum in DELPH-IN (and HPSG, ParGram, LFG).

Questions

• recruitment and training of new grammarians;

• long-term maintenance of complex existing grammars;

• relating to more theoretical work or ‘divergent’ interpretations of (LFG and) HPSG;

• standardizing (semantic) interface representations to parsing and generation, to support downstream tasks like entailment or reasoning;

• connecting to third-party (semantic) resources like BabelNet, VerbNet, or WordNet; or

• demonstrating the utility of deeper linguistic analysis in practical applications.

• what's the point?