Syllabus
1. Introduction
2. The description of grammar formalisms: RFODG, Q-systems, unification-based formalisms
3. Choosing the formalisms and language phenomena to be used for the independent work of students
4. The discussion about problems of creation of grammars based on handwritten rules
5. Introduction to stochastic approach to parsing, advantages and disadvantages
6. Discussion about problems encountered by students in their work
7. Summary
Annotation
The main goal of this workshop is to provide the students with basic theoretical and practical knowledge of methods used for syntactic parsing of languages with a high degree of word-order freedom. The students have a chance to create a simple grammar covering certain interesting syntactic phenomena of Czech in one of the formalisms or languages available (PATR, Q-systems, Prolog, Lisp etc.)