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Title:		Electronic Grammars and Reproducible Research
Bibliographic Citation:		Maxwell, Mike; 2012-10; Kaipuleohone University of Hawai'i Digital Language Archive;http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4536.
Creator:		Maxwell, Mike
Date (W3CDTF):		2012-10
Description:		It is time for grammatical descriptions to become reproducible research. In order for this to happen, grammar descriptions must be testable, not only by the original author, but also by other linguists. Given the complexity of natural language grammars, and the ambiguity of prose descriptions, that testing is best done using computational tools to verify a computationally implementable grammar. At the same time, grammars need to be useful---and testable---for the foreseeable future; that is, they must be archivable. Yet if a computational grammar is tied to particular computational tools, it will inevitably become obsolescent. This paper describes a means of creating computationally interpretable grammars which are not tied to particular computational tools, nor (to the extent possible) to any particular linguistic theory, and which can therefore be expected to remain useful into the future. In order to make such formal grammars simultaneously understandable to humans, they are embedded into descriptive grammars of a more traditional sort, using the technique of Literate Programming. The implementation of this technology for morphology and phonology is described. It has been used to create morphological grammars for Bangla, Urdu and Pashto which are both human-readable and computationally testable.
		National Foreign Language Resource Center
Identifier:		Maxwell, Mike. 2012. Electronic Grammars and Reproducible Research. In Sebastian Nordoff (ed). 2012. Electronic Grammaticography. 207-235. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
		978-0-9856211-1-7
Identifier (URI):		http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4536
Publisher:		University of Hawai'i Press
Relation:		LD&C Special Publication 04
Table Of Contents:		maxwell.pdf
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Citation:		Maxwell, Mike. 2012. University of Hawai'i Press.