Objectives: Auditory perception or hearing ability is critical for children in acquisition of language and speech; hence hearing loss has different effects on individuals’ linguistic perception, and also on their functions. It seems that deaf people suffer from language and speech impairments such as in perception of complex linguistic constructions. This research was aimed to study the percept...

We propose a framework for using multiple sources of linguistic information in the task of identifying multiword expressions in natural language texts. We define various linguistically motivated classification features and introduce novel ways for computing them. We then manually define interrelationships among the features, and express them in a Bayesian network. The result is a powerful class...

Kleene algebra with tests (KAT) is an equational system that extends Kleene algebra, the algebra of regular expressions, and that is specially suited to capture and verify properties of simple imperative programs. In this paper we study two constructions of automata from KAT expressions: the Glushkov automaton (Apos), and a new construction based on the notion of prebase (equation automata, Aeq...

Currently, neural-symbolic integration covers – at least in theory – a whole bunch of types of reasoning: neural representations (and partially also neural-inspired learning approaches) exist for modeling propositional logic (programs), whole classes of manyvalued logics, modal logic, temporal logic, and epistemic logic, just to mention some important examples [2,4]. Besides these propositional...

We describe a computational lexicon which encodes verbal syntactic constructions in French. The aim of the project is to encode into a standard formalism the valency lexicon for French initiated in the eighties by M. Salkoff and A. Valli and continued since then. The whole computational lexicon will include about six thousand verbal entries with a list of the arguments of each verb, the restric...

Kleene algebra with tests (KAT) is an equational system that extends Kleene algebra, the algebra of regular expressions, and that is specially suited to capture and verify properties of simple imperative programs. In this paper we study two constructions of automata from KAT expressions: the Glushkov automaton (Apos), and a new construction based on the notion of prebase (equation automata, Aeq...

This paper has the goal of investigating the nature of membership within the category ‘passive’ and cross-linguistic comparison of constructions, ‘passive’ and otherwise. Topicality measures were collected from the Uppsala Corpus of Russian for passive and active uses of the Russian verbs pisat’/napisat’ ‘to write,’ davat’/dat’ ‘to give,’ and zabyvat’/zabyt’ ‘to forget.’ Croft’s (2001) notion o...

Abstract This study investigates the linguistic expression of bring and take events more generally semantic domain directed caused accompanied motion (‘directed CAM’) across a sample eight languages Pacific Americas. Unlike English, majority in our do not lexicalise CAM by simple verbs, but rather encode defining meaning components – motion, accompaniment, directedness morphosyntactically compl...

This paper addresses the question whether possible alternative constructions and alternative choices of referring expressions influence the resolution of anaphoric expressions. We present a questionnaire, a self-paced reading study and a corpus analysis, suggesting that alternative constructions and referring expressions help to constitute preferences for anaphora in referentially ambiguous sen...