How Useful are LLMs for Grammar Engineering? Cantonese ParGram Resources and Controlled Experimental Evaluation with English Baselines
This paper presents new Cantonese ParGram resources and evaluates LLMs for knowledge-driven grammar engineering within a controlled experimental paradigm. Using Cantonese ParGram resources as gold standards, with corresponding English baselines, we investigate whether OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b and GPT-5.4 can generate machine-processable grammars from sentences and target formal structures under systematically varied prompting conditions. GPT-5.4 outperformed gpt-oss-120b, while grammars generated from target formal structures generally outperformed those generated from sentences. Although both models could generate locally plausible phrase-structure rules, lexical entries, and templates, they often struggled to coordinate interacting formal constraints, especially in multi-construction settings. The results characterize both the capabilities and limitations of current LLMs for potential integration into AI-assisted expert workflows: LLMs may support intermediate stages of grammar development, but human linguistic expertise remains central to analysis, validation, and refinement. The study also contributes new Cantonese symbolic grammatical resources.
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