Two general paradigms have influenced the study of nominals since the middle eighties. According to the syntactic DP hypothesis of Abney (1987), the syntactic unit that had formerly been known as noun phrase should in fact be analyzed as a phrase headed by a determiner, hence the label DP. Figure 1 gives a simple version of the DP hypothesis, without deciding here about the category of the spec...

In this paper we present an integrated approach for recognizing both the word sequence and the syntactic-prosodic structure of a spontaneous utterance. We take into account the fact that a spontaneous utterance is not merely an unstructured sequence of words by incorporating phrase boundary information into the language model and by providing HMMs to model boundaries. This allows for a distinct...

The present study examined auditory event-related potential (ERP) responses to sentence-embedded syntactic (phrase structure) and semantic violations. Syntactic violations were found to elicit a centroparietal negativity peaking at around 350 msec, followed by a P600. Semantic anomalies elicited an N400 as well as a late centroparietally distributed positivity. The shorter latency and different...

Pauses play important roles for the intelligibility and naturalness of speech. Their occurrence and duration in text reading are influenced by syntactic structures of the text as well as by physiological constraints of respiration on the part of the speaker. In contrast to sentenceand paragraph-final pauses, sentence-medial pauses are influenced by a number of factors. Analysis of Japanese news...

The Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation (PB-SMT) model has recently begun to include source context modeling, under the assumption that the proper lexical choice of an ambiguous word can be determined from the context in which it appears. Various types of lexical and syntactic features such as words, parts-of-speech, and supertags have been explored as effective source context in SMT. ...

In this paper we present an integrated approach for recognizing both the word sequence and the syntactic-prosodic structure of a spontaneous utterance. We take into account the fact that a spontaneous utterance is not merely an unstructured sequence of words by incorporating phrase boundary information into the language model and by providing HMMs to model boundaries. This allows for a distinct...

Abstract This article is intended as the first of a series papers designing an electronic linguistic resource made up three modules: (1) phrase-based active dictionary thought attempt to implement John Sinclair’s vision “ultimate dictionary”; (2) grammar / construction describing not only morphologic and syntactic rules language but also its systematic (semantic) alternations derivations genera...

Verb aspect is a phenomenon of widespread occurrence and considerable variability in the world’s languages (see, e.g., Comrie, 1976; Dahl, 1985). In English its main manifestation consists of two grammatical oppositions, that between the simple and continuous forms of the verb, as in I eat vs I am eating, and that between the simple and perfect forms, as in I eat vs I have eaten. English allows...

The ClearTK-TimeML submission to TempEval 2013 competed in all English tasks: identifying events, identifying times, and identifying temporal relations. The system is a pipeline of machine-learning models, each with a small set of features from a simple morpho-syntactic annotation pipeline, and where temporal relations are only predicted for a small set of syntactic constructions and relation t...

We present a novel approach to word reordering which successfully integrates syntactic structural knowledge with phrase-based SMT. This is done by constructing a lattice of alternatives based on automatically learned probabilistic syntactic rules. In decoding, the alternatives are scored based on the output word order, not the order of the input. Unlike previous approaches, this makes it possib...