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In this paper, I give an overview of an ongoing project which aims at building a full-scale computational grammar for Georgian in the Lexical Functional Grammar framework and try to illustrate both practical and theoretical aspects of grammar development. The rich and complex morphology of the language is a major challenge when building a computational grammar for Georgian that is meant to be more than a toy system. I discuss my treatment of the morphology and show how morphology interfaces with syntax. I then illustrate how some of the main syntactic constructions of the language are implemented in the grammar. Finally, I present the indispensable tools that are used in developing the grammar system: fst; the xle parsing platform, the LFG Parsebanker, and a large searchable corpus of non-fiction and fiction texts.
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Meurer, P. (2009). A Computational Grammar for Georgian. In: Bosch, P., Gabelaia, D., Lang, J. (eds) Logic, Language, and Computation. TbiLLC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5422. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00665-4_1
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