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A Formal Approach to Lingware Development

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This paper has two purposes. First, it presents a formal approach for the specification and development of lingware. This approach is based on the integration of the main existent formalisms for describing linguistic knowledge (i.e., Formal Grammars, Unification Grammars, HPSG, etc .) on the one hand, and the integration of data and processing on the other one. In this way, a specification of an application treating natural language includes all related aspects (linguistic and processing) in a unified framework. This approach promotes the reuse of proved correct specifications ( linguistic knowledge specifications, modules and subsystems).

Second, it proposes an environment for the formal specification and development of lingware, based on the presented approach.

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Gargouri, B., Jmaiel, M., Ben Hamadou, A. (1999). A Formal Approach to Lingware Development. In: Imam, I., Kodratoff, Y., El-Dessouki, A., Ali, M. (eds) Multiple Approaches to Intelligent Systems. IEA/AIE 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1611. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-48765-4_91

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