A branch of the English Resource Grammar (ERG) that is used for Singlish. Created as a Master's Research project. It is published under the same license as the ERG, the MIT license.
The singlish subdirectory contains the files that have been added or in the case of parse-nodes.tdl, cloned from the trunk and changed. Refer to ace/config-singlish.tdl and singlish.tdl to see which files are in use.
To compile this grammar using LKB most conveniently:
- Under Lkb Top's Advanced menu, select 'Evaluate Lisp expression' and type in
(push :singlish \*features\*) - Load the ERG as usual, via the Load--Complete Grammar on the LKB Top menu.
To compile this grammar using ace:
- In the ERG directory $ ace -G singlish.dat -g ace/config-singlish.tdl
To check the semantics:
$ echo "sentence" | ace -g [grammar].dat -Tfq
And to generate in another grammar:
echo "sentence" | ace -g [grammar1].dat -Tfq | ace -g [grammar2].dat -e
To generate from MRS:
cat [mrs] | ace -g [grammar2].dat -e
- to change the generation root, add
-r [root]to the command - and add
--disable-subsumption-testfor easier generation
Data was extracted from examples on Wiktionary pages with words that were marked to be Singlish. It includes also the other non-Singlish definitions and usages of the words. The example sentences include some that are offensive and racist but they not taken out as it reflects how this variety is used.
To parse the data using ace (parts in brackets are optional)
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To parse with only top tree: $ cat singlish/data/wikidata/wikiexamples_first300.txt | ace -g singlish.dat -Tf1 > /tmp/output.txt
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To remove lines starting with "#":
grep -vP "^#" wikiexamples_first300.txt | ace...
lexicon_goldtrees.tdl contains the words added to the standard English lexicon when parsing the 30 Singlish sentences from skeletons/treebankset.