We present an effective technique to easily augment GHKM-style syntax-based machine translation systems (Galley et al., 2006) with phrase pairs that do not comply with any syntactic well-formedness constraints. Non-syntactic phrase pairs are distinguished from syntactic ones in order to avoid harming effects. We apply our technique in state-of-the-art string-totree and tree-to-string setups. Fo...

The current study explores infants’ use of prosodic cues coincident with phrases in processing fluent speech. After familiarization with two versions of the same word sequence, both 6and 9-month-olds showed a preference for a passage containing the sequence as a noun phrase over a passage with the same sequence as a syntactic non-unit. However, this result was found only in one of two groups, t...

This paper presents a strategy for syntactic analysis based on the combination of two different parsing techniques: lexical syntactic tagging and phrase structure syntactic parsing. The basic proposal is to take advantage of the good results on lexical syntactic tagging to improve the whole performance of unification-based parsing. The syntactic functions attached to every word by the lexical s...

This paper discusses the consequences of allowing discontinuous constituents in syntactic representions and phrase-structure rules, and the resulting complications for a standard parser of phrase-structure grammar. It is argued, first, that discontinuous constituents seem inevitable in a phrase-structure grammar which is acceptable from a semantic point of view. It is shown that tree-like const...

Though phrase-based SMT has achieved high translation quality, it still lacks of generalization ability to capture word order differences between languages. In this paper we describe a general method for tree-to-string phrasebased SMT. We study how syntactic transformation is incorporated into phrase-based SMT and its effectiveness. We design syntactic transformation models using unlexicalized ...

The meaning of ‘we’ is usually seen as ‘I þ others’. Russian, along with many other languages, has a construction that allows an overt specification of ‘others’, the so-called Plural Pronoun Construction (PPC), which involves a plural pronoun and a comitative phrase. The syntactic behavior of this comitative phrase differs from that of other withphrases such as VP-adjuncts, NP-adjuncts, and com...

This paper describes the neural and phrase-based machine translation systems submitted by CUNI to English-Czech News Translation Task of WMT17. We experiment with synthetic data for training and try several system combination techniques, both neural and phrase-based. Our primary submission CU-CHIMERA ends up being phrase-based backbone which incorporates neural and deep-syntactic candidate tran...

To guarantee a good quality of synthesized speech in a rule-based synthesis, detailed and accurate segmental and suprasegmental rules for a given text are necessary. Especially, much work on the prosodic structure is needed. The goal of this study is to examine roles of syntactic information, intonation pattern, and phrase final lengthening in formation of prosodic units or perception of a phra...

The current study explores infants! use of prosodic cues coincident with phrases in processing fluent speech. After familiarization with two versions of the same word sequence, both 6and 9-month-olds showed a preference for a passage containing the sequence as a noun phrase over a passage with the same sequence as a syntactic non-unit. However, this result was found only in one of the two group...