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The work describes a wide-coverage computational grammar for Swedish. It is developed using GF (Grammatical Framework), a functional language specialized for grammar programming. We trained and evaluated the grammar by using Talbanken, one of the largest treebanks for Swedish. As a result 65% of the Talbanken trees were translated into the GF format in the training stage and 76% of the noun phrases were parsed during the evaluation. Moreover, we obtained a language model for Swedish which we use for disambiguation.
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Ahlberg, M., Enache, R. (2012). A Type-Theoretical Wide-Coverage Computational Grammar for Swedish. In: Sojka, P., Horák, A., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7499. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32790-2_22
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