1. Basics of formal language processing - parsing of formal languages, in deterministic and probabilistic approaches.
2. General formal methods in grammatical formalisms for natural language:
lexicalized formalisms, unification-based formalisms, and the treatment of extraction phenomena using such frameworks.
3. Specific examples from a number of leading grammar formalisms such as Minimalist Grammars (MG),
Tree-Adjoining Grammar (TAG), Head-driven phrase structure grammar (HPSG).

Doel:
 * general knowledge of the expressivity and complexity properties of the formalisms and of their similarities and differences;
* relation between the various grammar models and their use in the language technology world;
* hands-on experience with the development and implementation of computational grammar fragments in the different formalisms;
* analysis, presentation and discussion of the literature;
* writing of a paper for the course.