The field of compositional distributional semantics has proposed very interesting and reliable models for accounting the distributional meaning of simple phrases. These models however tend to disregard the syntactic structures when they are applied to larger sentences. In this paper we propose the chunk-based smoothed tree kernels (CSTKs) as a way to exploit the syntactic structures as well as ...

FIPSVox is a text-to-speech system for French developed at LATL. It is based on FIPS, a large-scale, multi-purpose, GBbased syntactic parser which produces detailed analyses and the MBROLA diphones-concatenation synthesizer. The syntactic information provided by the parser is directly exploited by the grapheme-to-phoneme module to handle heterophone homographs as well as French elision, denasal...

This paper reports the results of a self-paced reading experiment in Japanese in which the materials consisted of four versions of successively more nested syntactic structures. It was found that (1) people read the more nested materials slower than the less nested materials; and (2) the locus of the relative slowdown occurred early in the nested structures. There was no corresponding slowdown ...

Hollow-particle-filled composites called syntactic foams are lightweight particulate composites that are useful in weight-sensitive applications such as aerospace and marine structures. Extensive literature is now available on the mechanical properties of syntactic foams. The upcoming applications for syntactic foams in aerospace structures require understanding of their thermal properties, suc...

There is often more than one way to represent syntactic structures, even within a given formalism. Selecting one representation over another may affect parsing performance. Therefore, selecting between alternative syntactic representations (henceforth, syntactic selection) is an essential step in designing an annotation scheme. We present a methodology for syntactic selection and apply it to si...