A Metagrammar for Vietnamese LTAG

International audienceWe present in this paper an initial investigation into the use of a metagrammar for explicitly sharing abstract grammatical specifications for the Vietnamese language. We first introduce the essential syntactic mechanisms of the Vietnamese language. We then show that the basic subcategorization frames of Vietnamese can be compactly represented by classes using the XMG formalism (eXtensible MetaGrammar). Finally, we report on the implementation the first metagrammar producing verbal elementary trees recognizing basic Vietnamese sentences