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=== Background ===
 
=== Background ===
Since the mid eighties, a group of researchers and students at the [http://www.ntnu.no/hf/isk Linguistics Department] at the [http://www.ntnu.no/english/ Norwegian University of Science and Technology] has explored the use of formal and shallow linguistic methods for natural language applications. The formalization and encoding of morpho-syntactic and semantic information, both at lexical and phrasal level has been central to this work. In 2003, the group took the name '''LinLab'''.
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Since the mid eighties, a group of researchers and students at the [http://www.ntnu.no/hf/isk Linguistics Department] at the [http://www.ntnu.no/english/ Norwegian University of Science and Technology] has explored the use of formal and shallow linguistic methods for natural language applications. The formalization and encoding of morpho-syntactic and semantic information, both at lexical and phrasal level has been a central theme for work done by our research consortium. In 2003 we took the name '''LinLab'''.
  
Two focal areas were defined: '''Grammar Engineering''' and '''Language Documentation'''.
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At present we have two focal areas: '''Grammar Engineering''' and '''Language Documentation'''.
  
 
===Grammar Engineering at LingLab===
 
===Grammar Engineering at LingLab===
In Grammar Engineering the main application developed by LinLab in cooperation with the consortium [http://wiki.delph-in.net/moin/FrontPage DELPH-IN], is the Norwegian computational grammar NorSource (Hellan, Beermann, Waldron ). NorSource applies the typed feature structure framework HPSG (Pollard and Sag (1994)) using the computational platforms LKB (Copestake 2002) and PET. As part of this work LingLab developed an LKB multi-script interface called Trollet (Mihaylov). At present  the Construction Labeling Project, a system for encoding construction types across languages (Hellan) is central.
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In Grammar Engineering the main application developed by LinLab is the Norwegian computational grammar NorSource (Hellan, Beermann, Waldron). Together with other partners in the [http://wiki.delph-in.net/moin/FrontPage DELPH-IN] network LinLab applies Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG (Pollard and Sag (1994)) and Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS)[http://www.springerlink.com/content/8g7924476l471916/ (Copestake et.al.2005)] to advance deep natural language processing.  
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As part of this work LingLab has developed an LKB multi-script interface called [http://wiki.delph-in.net/moin/LkbTrollet Trollet] (by Pavel Mihaylov).  
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As a further effect to represent lexical and construction level information is the [[Verbconstructions cross-linguistically - Introduction]] Construction Labeling Project, a system for encoding construction types across languages (Hellan).

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Background

Since the mid eighties, a group of researchers and students at the Linguistics Department at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology has explored the use of formal and shallow linguistic methods for natural language applications. The formalization and encoding of morpho-syntactic and semantic information, both at lexical and phrasal level has been a central theme for work done by our research consortium. In 2003 we took the name LinLab.

At present we have two focal areas: Grammar Engineering and Language Documentation.

Grammar Engineering at LingLab

In Grammar Engineering the main application developed by LinLab is the Norwegian computational grammar NorSource (Hellan, Beermann, Waldron). Together with other partners in the DELPH-IN network LinLab applies Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG (Pollard and Sag (1994)) and Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS)(Copestake et.al.2005) to advance deep natural language processing.

As part of this work LingLab has developed an LKB multi-script interface called Trollet (by Pavel Mihaylov).

As a further effect to represent lexical and construction level information is the Verbconstructions cross-linguistically - Introduction Construction Labeling Project, a system for encoding construction types across languages (Hellan).