Cophonologies by Ph(r)ase

Cophonologies by phase

Introduction This paper proposes a model of the syntax-phonology interface which is compatible with a central assumption of mainstream syntax, that phonology and morphology are interpreted from syntactic structures, and mainstream phonology, which models phonological processes by ranked or weighted constraints. The central idea is to combine Cophonology Theory (Ito & Mester 1995, Anttila 2002, ...

Playing Mozart Phrase by Phrase

Noun Phrase Structure by Reprojection

In this paper we argue that the concept of reprojection, often applied in the verbal domain, should be extended to the nominal domain. We develop an analysis according to which a moved N does not adjoin to a functional category; rather, it moves out of its projection and remerges with it. This movement is (indirectly) triggered by a certain kind of categorial probe feature that we call “Münchha...

Noun Phrase Recognition by System Combination

The performance of machine learning algorithms can be improved by combining the output of different systems. In this paper we apply this idea to the recognition of noun phrases. We generate different classifiers by using different representations of the data. By combining the results with voting techniques described in (Van Halteren et al., 1998) we manage to improve the best reported performan...

Finite-state phrase parsing by rule sequences

We present a novel approach to parsing phrase grammars based on Eric Brill's notion of rule sequences. The basic framework we describe has somewhat less power than a finite-state machine, and yet achieves high accuracy on standard phrase parsing tasks. The rule language is simple, which makes it easy to write rules. Further, this simplicity enables the automatic acquisition of phraseparsing rul...