Competitive grammar writing

  • Authors:

  • Jason Eisner;Noah A. Smith

  • Affiliations:

  • Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD;Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Venue:
  • TeachCL '08 Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Issues in Teaching Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Just as programming is the traditional introduction to computer science, writing grammars by hand is an excellent introduction to many topics in computational linguistics. We present and justify a well-tested introductory activity in which teams of mixed background compete to write probabilistic context-free grammars of English. The exercise brings together symbolic, probabilistic, algorithmic, and experimental issues in a way that is accessible to novices and enjoyable.