A Parallel Metagrammar for Closely Related Languages – A Case Study of Czech and Russian

Abstract

This paper presents our work on parallel grammars for Czech and Russian. As both languages belong to the Slavic language group it has been possible to employ the same syntactic analyzer based on the notion of metagrammar. Our metagrammar, first developed for Czech, has been generalized with the aim of covering the same language phenomena in Czech and Russian by a unified set of metagrammar constructs. Preliminary parsing results based on the developed metagrammar are given at the end of this article.