Syntactic Transformations on Distributed Representations

Syntactic Transformations on Distributed Representations

There has been much interest in the possibility of connectionist models whose representations can be endowed with compositional structure, and a variety of such models have been proposed. These models typically use distributed representations that arise from the functional composition of constituent parts. Functional composition and decomposition alone, however, yield only an implementation of ...

Data Representations and Transformations

To permit visualization, analysis, and reporting, data must be transformed from their original raw state into a form, or representation, that is suitable for manipulation. These data representations and transformations are the foundation on which visual analytics is built. Data representations are structured forms suitable for computer-based transformations. These structures must exist in the o...

Geometric Representations and Transformations

Smoothing a Probabilistic Lexicon via Syntactic Transformations

SMOOTHING A PROBABILISTIC LEXICON VIA SYNTACTIC TRANSFORMATIONS Jason Michael Eisner Supervisor: Professor Mitch Marcus Probabilistic parsing requires a lexicon that specifies each word’s syntactic preferences in terms of probabilities. To estimate these probabilities for words that were poorly observed during training, this thesis assumes the existence of arbitrarily powerful transformations (...

Syntactic transformations for Swiss German dialects

While most dialectological research so far focuses on phonetic and lexical phenomena, we use recent fieldwork in the domain of dialect syntax to guide the development of multidialectal natural language processing tools. In particular, we develop a set of rules that transform Standard German sentence structures into syntactically valid Swiss German sentence structures. These rules are sensitive ...