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This paper discusses the methodology and tools applied in the Parallel Grammar project (ParGram) to support consistency and parallelism of linguistic representations across multilingual Lexical Functional Grammar (lfg) grammars. A particular issue is that the grammars in the ParGram project are developed at different international sites. The approach that was established over several years relies on (i) a technical tool for checking adherence to the best-practice feature declaration for linguistic representations, (ii) the coordinated, systematic use of templates for expressing generalizations across lexicon entries and grammar rules, and (iii) a grammar code reviewing committee in which extensions to the existing representations are critically discussed.
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King, T.H., Forst, M., Kuhn, J. et al. The Feature Space in Parallel Grammar Writing. Res Lang Comput 3, 139–163 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11168-005-1295-z
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