ErgSummary

Grammar Summary for ERG

Grammar	English Resource Grammar (ERG)
Language/Dialect	English, Standard American
Authors	Dan Flickinger, Rob Malouf, Emily Bender
Start date	1994
Person-years to date	17
Source available (link)	[http://www.delph-in.net/erg]
Documentation
- publications (link)	www.delph-in.net/erg
- online (link)	No
Online demo (link)	www.delph-in.net/erg
License	MIT

Number of lexical leaf types	864
Total number of lexical types	1822
Number of lexical entries
- Handbuilt	24191
- External source
Number of syntactic rules	153
Number of lexical rules	26
Total number of types (no GLBs)	4303
Lines of TDL (excl lexicon)	28610
Lines of comments	5757

External morphology	No
Preprocessor	Yes: finite state in LKB
Lexical database	Yes
Unknown word mechanism	Yes: TNT POS-based in PET
Idioms	Yes
Test suites: link	Yes: DELPHINROOT/lingo/lkb/src/tsdb/skeletons
- domain & number of items	csli:phenom (1348), mrs:semantics (107),
	hike:tourism (330), rondane:tourism (1424),
	logon:tourism (9411), vm:meetings (12393),
	ec:ecommerce (5867), trec9:q-a (693)
- treebanks: link	Yes: www.delph-in.net/redwoods and
	DELPHINROOT/lingo/erg/gold/
Parse-ranking model	Yes, from LOGON treebanks
Generation (trigger rules)	Yes
Realization-ranking model	Yes, from LOGON treebanks
Paraphrasing rules	Yes
SEM-I	Yes
Application(s)	MT, email response
Platforms
- processing engines	[wiki:LkbTop LKB], PET, ACE, LILFES
- operating systems	Linux, Windows, MacOS