Syntax plays an important role in the task of predicting the semantic structure of a sentence. But syntactic phenomena such as alternations, control and raising tend to obfuscate the relation between syntax and semantics. In this paper we predict the semantic structure of a sentence using a deeper syntax than what is usually done. This deep syntactic representation abstracts away from purely sy...

We present a transition-based system that jointly predicts the syntactic structure and lexical units of a sentence by building two structures over the input words: a syntactic dependency tree and a forest of lexical units including multiword expressions (MWEs). This combined representation allows us to capture both the syntactic and semantic structure of MWEs, which in turn enables deeper downs...

Advanced module systems like Standard ML's 13, 17] support structure generativity. Structure generativity denotes the mechanism that parameterized modules (functors) generate a "new" module instance (structure) for every application to a suitable argument. This operational behaviour is essentially a side eeect. Since interfaces in general depend on module instances, module instances are computa...

We present an approach to creating a treebank of sentences using multiple notations or linguistic theories simultaneously. We illustrate the method by annotating sentences from the Penn Treebank II in three different theories in parallel: the original PTB notation, a Functional Dependency Grammar notation, and a Government and Binding style notation. Sentences annotated with all of these theori...

In this study, we introduce a method for estimating the syntactic structure of Japanese speech from F0 contour and pause duration. We defined a prosodic unit (PU) which is bound by a local minimum point of an F0 contour pattern or pause. Combining PUs repeatedly (a pair of PUs is combined into one PU), a tree structure is gradually generated. Which pair of PUs in a sequence of three PUs should ...

We present a model of coordination within Interaction Grammars. The notion of polarity lets us define the interface of a syntactic structure as its capacity to combine with other syntactic structures in terms of requirements and resources. The coordination of two conjuncts is then viewed as the superposition of their syntactic structure interfaces. Those structures are represented by means of t...

In this paper we propose an approach to modeling syntactically-motivated skeletal structure of source sentence for machine translation. This model allows for application of high-level syntactic transfer rules and low-level non-syntactic rules. It thus involves fully syntactic, non-syntactic, and partially syntactic derivations via a single grammar and decoding paradigm. On large-scale Chinese-E...

Syntactic parsing of speech transcriptions faces the problem of the presence of disfluencies that break the syntactic structure of the utterances. We propose in this paper two solutions to this problem. The first one relies on a disfluencies predictor that detects disfluencies and removes them prior to parsing. The second one integrates the disfluencies in the syntactic structure of the utteran...

This paper will present the design of a Galician syntactic corpus with application to intonation modeling. Our paper paid attention to phonetics and syntactic phenomena to achieve a comparison beetwen its appearances. A corpus of around 3000 sentences was designed with variation in the syntactic structure and the number of accent groups, and recorded by a professional speaker to study the influ...