PAWS consists of a series of web pages that explain and illustrate the syntactic issues to be covered by the section and then has a series of multiple-choice questions about what happens in the language the user is studying. The user is also requested to provide example sentences and words. See the PowerPoint presentation<\/a> for more.<\/p>\n The task of writing a grammar for a language can seem so overwhelming that many give up without even trying. Completing and revising a draft is a much less daunting task, and PAWS can provide that needed head start. (See Black and Black (2012)<\/a> for more on this.)<\/p>\n PAWS takes advantage of XML technologies to create \u201cactionable\u201d knowledge which can be turned into drafts of a grammar write-up as well as a draft of a grammar file that can be used by the PC-PATR syntactic parsing program<\/a>. (See Black and Black (2009)<\/a> for an explanation; see also Simons and Black (2009)<\/a> and Black (2009)<\/a>).<\/p>\n On the Contents page near the top is a link to a page describing the purpose of PAWS.\u00a0 This page has links to the technical articles above describing the Writer and Parser outputs.<\/p>\n The right hand column of the Contents page has instructions (in green) to help you know what to do.<\/p>\n PAWS also comes with a number of resource files which you may find helpful for editing the draft of the Writer output and for refining the PC-PATR grammar output (should you choose to use it).\u00a0\u00a0 Use the Help menu item and choose Resources.<\/p>\n Using PAWS is rather straight-forward.\u00a0 The biggest challenge is in dealing with the linguistic realities of the language you are using with PAWS.<\/p>\n For editing the XLingPaper<\/a>-based Writer output, there are three sets of PDF files of step-by-step instructions on how to edit the XLingPaper<\/a> draft. One set is in Spanish, one is in French, and one is in English.<\/p>\n English:<\/strong> XLingPaper Quick Reference<\/a><\/p>\n French:<\/strong> Guide R\u00e9f\u00e9rence du programme XLingPaper<\/a><\/p>\nSome Details<\/h2>\n
Help Editing the XLingPaper Writer Output<\/h2>\n