SlaviCLIMB: Combining expertise for Slavic grammar development using a metagrammar

We present the initial steps and outlook of Slaviclimb, the dynamic component of an effort to develop grammatical resources for Slavic languages around a shared core grammar. The requirements of this component are: (i) it should provide a platform for sharing similar but not identical analyses, (ii) it should be able to contain alternative analyses for the same phenomenon, (iii) it should be easy to use for syntacticians and grammar engineers and (iv) it should provide an interface for Slavicists not trained in grammar engineering allowing them to create grammars. Though the first two properties have been addressed in previous work, this paper is, to our knowledge, the first to address (iii) and (iv) within the context of metagrammars and multilingual grammar development.