TY - GEN A1 - Maier, Isidor Konrad A1 - Kuhn, Johannes A1 - Beisegel, Jesse A1 - Huber-Liebl, Markus A1 - Wolff, Matthias T1 - Minimalist Grammar: Construction without Overgeneration T2 - arXiv N2 - In this paper we give instructions on how to write a minimalist grammar (MG). In order to present the instructions as an algorithm, we use a variant of context free grammars (CFG) as an input format. We can exclude overgeneration, if the CFG has no recursion, i.e. no non-terminal can (indirectly) derive to a right-hand side containing itself. The constructed MGs utilize licensors/-ees as a special way of exception handling. A CFG format for a derivation A_eats_B↦∗peter_eats_apples, where A and B generate noun phrases, normally leads to overgeneration, e.\,g., i_eats_apples. In order to avoid overgeneration, a CFG would need many non-terminal symbols and rules, that mainly produce the same word, just to handle exceptions. In our MGs however, we can summarize CFG rules that produce the same word in one item and handle exceptions by a proper distribution of licensees/-ors. The difficulty with this technique is that in most generations the majority of licensees/-ors is not needed, but still has to be triggered somehow. We solve this problem with ϵ-items called \emph{adapters}. Y1 - 2023 UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.01820 U6 - https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2311.01820 ER - TY - VIDEO A1 - Maier, Isidor Konrad T1 - A Decomposition Algorithm for Numerals based on Arithmetics N2 - Presentation of a Numeral Decomposition Algorithm. KW - Numeral Decomposition, Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning Y1 - 2022 UR - https://zenodo.org/record/7501280 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7501280 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Maier, Isidor Konrad A1 - Kuhn, Johannes A1 - Duckhorn, Frank A1 - Kraljevski, Ivan A1 - Sobe, Daniel A1 - Wolff, Matthias A1 - Tschöpe, Constanze T1 - Word Class Based Language Modeling: A Case of Upper Sorbian, LREC 2022, Marseille T2 - Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 2022 (LREC 2022), Marseille, 2022-06-13 Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7501145 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Maier, Isidor Konrad A1 - Wolff, Matthias T1 - A Decomposition Algorithm for Numerals based on Arithmetics N2 - Poster presentation for an idea to decompose numerals Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7501698 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Maier, Isidor Konrad A1 - Kuhn, Johannes Ferdinand Joachim A1 - Duckhorn, Frank A1 - Kraljevski, Ivan A1 - Sobe, Daniel A1 - Wolff, Matthias A1 - Tschöpe, Constanze T1 - Word Class Based Language Modeling: A Case of Upper Sorbian T2 - Proceedings of The Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marseille, France N2 - In this paper we show how word class based language modeling can support the integration of a small language in modern applications of speech technology. The methods described in this paper can be applied for any language. We demonstrate the methods on Upper Sorbian. The word classes model the semantic expressions of numerals, date and time of day. The implementation of the created grammars was realized in the form of finite-state-transducers (FSTs) and minimalists grammars (MGs). We practically demonstrate the usage of the FSTs in a simple smart-home speech application, that is able to set wake-up alarms and appointments expressed in a variety of spontaneous and natural sentences. While the created MGs are not integrated in an application for practical use yet, they provide evidence that MGs could potentially work more efficient than FSTs in built-on applications. In particular, MGs can work with a significantly smaller lexicon size, since their more complex structure lets them generate more expressions with less items, while still avoiding wrong expressions. KW - word classes, minimalist grammar, language modeling, speech recognition, Upper Sorbian Y1 - 2022 UR - http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2022/workshops/EURALI/pdf/2022.eurali-1.5.pdf SN - 978-2-493814-07-4 SP - 28 EP - 35 PB - European Language Resources Association ER -