One of the claimed benefits of Tree Adjoining Grammars is that they have an extended domain of locality (EDOL). We consider how this can be exploited to limit the need for feature structure unification during parsing. We compare two wide-coverage lexicalized grammars of English, LEXSYS and XTAG, finding that the two grammars exploit EDOL in different ways. 1 Introduction One of the most basic p...

To understand how daily usages can shape the gradual changes of both hěn, a prototypical intensifier in Mandarin Chinese, and the construction hěn X, the study aims to investigate the syntactic and semantic behaviors of hěn X constructions in spoken corpora. The conversational data from the NCCU Corpus of Spoken Chinese and a Taiwan Public Television show Bring Up Parents are extracted and anal...

In this paper we propose a solution for the representation of a wide range of multiword expressions1 (lexicalized or not) in the Basque WordNet. We first argue in favor of including non-lexicalized multiword expressions, and propose very simple criteria based on existing dictionaries to mark those that are lexicalized from those that are not. We then motivate and propose a representation based ...

Statistical parsing research can be described as being anglo-centric: new models are first proposed for English parsing, and only then tested in other languages. Indeed, a standard approach to parsing with new treebanks is to adapt fully developed English parsing models to the other language. In this dissertation, however, we claim that many assumptions of English parsing do not generalize to o...

We present a new approach to stochastic modeling of constraint-based grammars that is based on log-linear models and uses EM for estimation from unannotated data. The techniques are applied to an LFG grammar for German. Evaluation on an exact match task yields 86% precision for an ambiguity rate of 5.4, and 90% precision on a subcat frame match for an ambiguity rate of 25. Experimental comparis...

In this paper, we address two questions concerning negative imperatives in Korean: . (i) what is the morpho-syntactic nature of mal in negative imperatives?; and (ii) why is it impossible to form negative imperatives with short negation an? We will argue that the clause structure of imperatives include a projection of deontic modality and a projection of imperative operator encoding illocutiona...

The third instalment of the open challenge on Question Answering over Linked Data (QALD-3) has been conducted as a half-day lab at CLEF2013. Di↵erently from previous editions of the challenge, QALD-3 put a strong emphasis on multilinguality, o↵ering two tasks: one on multilingual question answering and one on ontology lexicalization. While no submissions were received for the latter, the former...

This article offers a conception of semantics, and of what makes the human language faculty distinctive, based on five theses: Meanings are instructions to build concepts; concatenation calls for conjunction of monadic concepts; grammatical relations invoke certain thematic relations and a kind of existential closure; lexicalization is a partly creative process of abstraction; and meanings are ...