Estonian resource grammar for the Resource Grammar Library (RGL) of Grammatical Framework (GF).

Note: This project is currently not being maintained, and the grammar is being improved directly in the RGL project (see https://github.com/GrammaticalFramework/gf-rgl/tree/master/src/estonian).

Tagged versions and zip-files with external resources are available at https://github.com/GF-Estonian/GF-Estonian/releases

To download only the GF files relevant for the resource grammar, execute:

mkdir -p api estonian
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GF-Estonian/GF-Estonian/master/tools/download-gf-estonian.py | python

To build the PGF run:

make pgf_lang

If the building fails with an error message, then compile ResEst.gf first:

make clean
gf estonian/ResEst.gf
make pgf_lang

Running morphology tests:

cd tools/
bash test-mk.bash N ../data/nouns.6forms.csv
bash test-mk.bash N ../data/adj.6forms.csv
bash test-mk.bash V ../data/verbs.8forms.csv

Running syntax tests:

make clean
cd tests/
sh run_tests.sh

We started out with a fork from the Finnish resource grammar with the general plan to:

• translate the demo lexicon from Finnish to Estonian (LexiconEst)
• implement Estonian smart paradigms to replace the Finnish ones
• tweak the syntax to be Estonian

This has been mostly accomplished.

2 numbers and 14 cases.

2 * 14 forms (excluding parallel forms)

• 1-arg (sg nom): 91% correct
• 2-arg (sg nom gen): 95% correct
• 3-arg (sg nom gen part): 97% correct
• 4-arg (sg nom gen part, pl part): 98% correct
• 6-arg paradigm: 100% correct
• no parallel forms

Constructed in the same way as nouns, but have 3 degree forms.

3 * 2 * 14 forms + 2 (?) * 1 adverb forms

• 1-arg : 90% correct
• 2-arg : 93% correct
• 3-arg : 95% correct
• 4-arg : 97% correct
• comparative guessed: TODO: determine correctness
• TODO: superlative (not urgent)

Forms: 40 in total

• Present : Person * Number
• Imperfect : Person * Number
• Conditional : Person * Number
• Imperative : P2 Sg, P2 Pl, P3, P1 Pl, NegPl
• Passive : {Present, Past} * {Pos, Neg}
• Quotative : Active, Passive
• Past participle : Active, Passive
• Present participle: Active, Passive
• Infinitive : da * 2 cases ; ma * 5 cases

Smart paradigm constructors

• 1-arg paradigm (ma): 90% correct
• 2-arg paradigm (ma, da): 96% correct
• 3-arg paradigm (ma, da, b): 98% correct
• 4-arg paradigm (ma, da, b, takse): 99% correct

See: https://github.com/GF-Estonian/lexicons

• most functions ported to Estonian
• tested using the MOLTO Phrasebook and ACE-in-GF applications

• Inari Listenmaa and Kaarel Kaljurand. Computational Estonian Grammar in Grammatical Framework. 9th SaLTMiL Workshop on "Free/open-Source Language Resources for the Machine Translation of Less-Resourced Languages", LREC 2014, Reykjavík, Iceland, 27 May 2014. PDF

See also the talks.

• Minibar: Resource Demo
• Speech grammars
• ACE-in-GF
• MOLTO Phrasebook in Estonian