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HEIndividual fellowship2022–2024

GAUSS · Grammar Assistance Using Syntactic Structures: Fast parsing with formal grammars deployed for Spanish grammar coaching.

Horizon Europe — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2022-08-01 → 2024-07-31
EU contribution
€165,313
Participants
1
Scheme
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF

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Results in brief

Grammar Assistance Using Syntactic Structures: Fast parsing with formal grammars deployed for Spanish grammar coaching.

The Grammar Assistance Using Syntactic Structures (GAUSS) project is concerned with a new, faster parsing technology for grammar coaching. For this purpose, the project developed a model of the Spanish grammar targeting specific learner constructions. The grammar can therefore parse learner constructions, assigning to them an informative structure. Such structures can then be used in grammar coaching. Automatic grammar coaching helps people write more like a native speaker of a language would, thus helping them navigate around biases associated with language. This is important for (i) finding a job and counterbalancing latent discrimination in any given society, in the case of major languages like Spanish; and (ii) reinforcing the understanding that each language has a systematic grammar in its own right, in the case of minority languages. The project focuses on pushing forward the state of the art of grammar parsing (using Spanish as the domain) in terms of its accuracy and performance. In other words, the project aims to present a model of Spanish grammar which yields more correct structures and does it faster. Spanish is one of the most spoken languages in the world, and one of the languages of the European Union. We choose Spanish as one of the most impactful domains. Research Objectives (RO): RO1: Fast HPSG parsing for realistic long sentences in Spanish. RO2: Spanish error productions formalized in a version of Spanish Resource Grammar. RO3: Empirical integration of RO1-RO2.

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Project objective

Grammar Assistance Using Syntactic Structures.In the times when a human's right to a cultural identity is often at odds with the standardized requirements placed by e.g. employment systems, automatic grammar coaching serves an important purpose of advising on standard grammar varieties while not imposing social pressures typical for a traditional grammar classroom or reinforcing established social roles. Such systems already exist but most of them are for English and few of them offer meaningful instructive feedback. Furthermore, they typically rely completely on neural methods, which means they require huge computational resources which most of the world cannot afford. I propose a grammar coaching system for Spanish that relies on (i) a rich linguistic formalism capable of giving informative feedback; and (ii) a new, faster parsing algorithm which makes using this formalism practical in a real-world grammar coaching application. My approach is feasible for any language for which there is a formalized grammar and is less reliant on hugely expensive and environmentally costly neural methods (while still benefiting from them where appropriate). I thus seek to contribute to Greener AI and to address global education challenges by raising the standards of inclusivity and engagement in grammar coaching while retaining the precision of systematized linguistic knowledge.

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Participants

  • UNIVERSIDADE DA CORUNA · La CorunaCoordinatorSpain

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