Approaching Ambiguity in Real-life Sentences { the Application of an Optimality Theory-inspired Constraint Ranking in a Large-scale Lfg Grammar

Optimality Theory Style Constraint Ranking in Large-scale LFG Grammars

Corpus-based Learning of Ot Constraint Rankings for Large-scale Lfg Grammars

We discuss a two-stage disambiguation technique for linguistically precise broad-coverage grammars: the pre-filter of the first stage is triggered by linguistic configurations (“optimality marks”) specified by the grammar writer; the second stage is a log-linear probability model trained on corpus data. This set-up is used in the Parallel Grammar (ParGram) project, developing Lexical Functional...

Treebank-Based Acquisition of Chinese LFG Resources for Parsing and Generation

This thesis describes a treebank-based approach to automatically acquire robust, wide-coverage Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) resources for Chinese parsing and generation, which is part of a larger project on the rapid construction of deep, large-scale, constraint-based, multilingual grammatical resources. I present an application-oriented LFG analysis for Chinese core linguistic phenomena an...

Linking, Optionality, and Ambiguity in Marathi

Optimality theory (OT; Prince and Smolensky 1993) has in a short time proven influential in theoretical phonology, and to a lesser degree in theoretical syntax. One of the main attractions of the theory is its strong commitment to typology. The basic hypothesis is that there is a set of universal constraints and languages differ only in how they rank the constraints. Since constraints are viola...

The Effect of Using Mobile apps on the Acquisition of Conditional Sentences among Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners

Nowadays, there has been an increasing interest in the integration of technology in pedagogical purposes. This study was an attempt to delve in to the impact of a mobile application (Cushy Grammar) on the learning of conditional sentences (type1, 2 and 3) among Iranian intermediate EFL learners in Rooyesh institute in Isfahan. To this end, a group of 75 intermediate EFL learners were non-random...