The paper reports on a detailed quantitative analysis of distributional language data of both Italian and Czech, highlighting the relative contribution of a number of distributed grammatical factors to sentence-based identification of subjects and direct objects. The work uses a Maximum Entropy model of stochastic resolution of conflicting grammatical constraints and is demonstrably capable of ...

We report here on a detailed quantitative analysis of distributional language data of both Italian and Czech, highlighting the relative contribution of a number of distributed grammatical factors to sentence-based identification of subjects and direct objects. The work is based on a Maximum Entropy model of stochastic resolution of grammatical conflicting constraints, and is demonstrably capabl...

Researchers in language origins typically try to explain how compositional communication might evolve bridge the gap between animal and natural language. However, as an explanatory target, compositionality has been shown be problematic for a gradualist approach evolution of In this paper, I suggest that reflexivity provides apt plausible alternative target which does not succumb problems faces....

This paper reports results obtained in benchmark tests conducted within the ARPA Spoken Language program in November and December of 1993. In addition to ARPA contractors, participants included a number of %olunteers", including foreign participants from Canada, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. The body of the paper is limited to an outline of the structure of the tests and presents hig...

On Aug. 7, 1985, the Uniform Health Care Information Act was approved by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. This Act and its development were first described in the Feb. 1984 JAMRA. The language approved at the Aug. 7 meeting appears below. Explanatory comments are still being drafted at press time, but will accompany the Act when it is distributed to state legislat...

This paper presents a full scaled application of induction trees for non-classificatory purposes. The grown trees are used for highlighting regional differences in the women’s labor participation, by using data from the Swiss Population Census. Hence, the focus is on their descriptive rather than predictive power. Trees grown by language regions exhibit fundamental cultural differences supporti...

My interest in information compression as an explanatory principle in information processing was sparked originally by lectures given by Horace Barlow in Cambridge University describing phenomena in the workings of brains and nervous systems which could be understood in terms of economical coding of information (see, for example, Barlow, 1969; Barlow and Földiák, 1989). Later, an accumulation o...

Ibero-Romance integrated an important number of Arabic loanwords including toponyms and hydronyms, especially during the Moorish period (711-1492). This article aims to provide some explanatory notes on underlying language structures in these borrowings, as etymological dictionaries usually only refer headword question.

In this paper, we discuss the phenomenon of logical polysemy in natural language as ~ddressed by Gener-ative Lexicon Theory. We discuss generally the role of type and sortal coercion operations in the selnantics, and specifically the conditions on the application of coercion in aspectual predicates and other contexts. We reply to some recent discussion regarding the use of coercion in the gramm...

Having focused previously on attention, cognitively oriented investigations of interlanguage variation and development are turning toward other possible explanatory variabies, such as pianning. The present study reports on an experiment in which two groups of 20 Japanese learners of English as a second language performed two monologic production tasks with and without time for planning. It was ...