Mary P. Harper, Leah H. Jamieson, Carla B. Zoltowski, and Randall A. Helzerman School of Electrical Engineering Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907 Abstract We have developed a constraint-based parser capable of processing a word graph containing multiple sentence hypotheses. When syntactic constraints are applied to a word graph, our parser is able to prune the graph of many ungrammatic...

Thematic knowledge is a basis of semamic interpretation. In this paper, we propose an acquisition method to acquire thematic knowledge by exploiting syntactic clues from training sentences. The syntactic clues, which may be easily collected by most existing syntactic processors, reduce the hypothesis space of the thematic roles. The ambiguities may be further resolved by the evidences either fr...

Incremental parsing with a context free grammar produces partial syntactic structures for an initial fragment on the word-by-word basis. Owing to the syntactic ambiguity, however, too many structures are produced, and therefore its parsing speed becomes very slow. This paper describes a technique for efficient incremental parsing using lexical information. The probability concerning dependencie...

Abstract The present paper deals with a syntactic ambiguity in Numenius’ Fr. 30, 9 and proposes new reading. According to most scholars, this fragment Numenius tries identify Egyptian gods human souls descending into generation. Instead, I argue that, since theology psychology are different topics 3, is rather talking about the interrelation of process metempsychosis.

Two experiments are reported examining the relationship between lexical and syntactic processing during language comprehension, combining techniques common to the on-line study of syntactic ambiguity resolution with priming techniques common to the study of lexical processing. By manipulating grammatical properties of lexical primes, we explore how lexically based knowledge is activated and gui...

The left inferior frontal gyrus (LIFG) is crucially has been found to be involved in syntactic processing of various kinds. This study investigates the cortical effects of two types of syntactic processes: (i) Reconstruction in ellipsis (recovery of left-out material given by context, More people have been to Paris than [...] to Oslo), using pseudo-elliptical structures ('dead ends') as control...

Abstract Syntactic decomposition theories of argument structure take predicates to be syntactically complex, consisting a root and one or more functional heads. Traditionally, these heads have been used as potential attachment sites for adverbs, such the repetitive adverb again, giving rise repetitive/restitutive ambiguity. In this paper, I question assumption that provide sublexical based on t...