We address the question what it takes to define a correct probabilistic model for syntactic natural language processing. We focus on one particular theory of syntax, called dependency syntax, and develop a framework for developing probabilistic model for that linguistic theory. Subsequently, we review existing models of probabilistic dependency syntax and show some problematic aspects of these ...

Chalmers’s philosophical work exploits a distinctive version of two-dimensionalism, a formal modal framework from the 1960s and 1970s that one can use to define two kinds of possible worlds semantic values. Chalmers presents this as the best form of a Fregean account of content. One of the principal aims of Constructing the World is to provide its metaphysical foundations. Chalmers presents him...

From the parsing point of view, the derivation tree in TAG [hereafter DT] is seen as the "history" of the derivation but also as a linguistic representation, closer to semantics, that can be the basis of a further analysis. Because in TAG the elementary trees are lexicalized and localize the predicate-arguments relations, several works have compared the DT to a structure involving dependencies ...

The aim of this paper is to compare the discourse structures proposed in RST, SDRT and dependency DAGs which extend the semantic level of MTT for discourses. The key question is the following: do these formalisms allow the representation of all the discourse structures which correspond to felicitous discourses and exclude those which correspond to infelicitous discourses? Hence the term of “str...

Semantic Orientation refers to the positive or negative attitude, standpoint or opinion on a certain person, object or affair. It is of degree diversity and combinability. Rule-based computation of SO for Chinese sentence, after pre-processing the input sentence in lexical and dependency syntax analysis, takes advantage of the syntax analysis results and combines the pre-compiled dictionary res...

We describe the design, development, and API for two discourse parsers for Rhetorical Structure Theory. The two parsers use the same underlying framework, but one uses features that rely on dependency syntax, produced by a fast shift-reduce parser, whereas the other uses a richer feature space, including both constituentand dependency-syntax and coreference information, produced by the Stanford...

In this paper, we deal with information retrieval approach based on language model paradigm, which has been intensively investigated in recent years. We propose, implement, and evaluate an enrichment of language model employing syntactic dependency information acquired automatically from both documents and queries. By testing our model on the Czech test collection from Cross Language Evaluation...

The paper casts a critical eye on those dependency grammars (DGs) that view linear order as derived from hierarchical order. It argues that MTT is such a DG insofar as language synthesis begins with a semantic representation, progresses through syntactic representations that lack linear order, and then proceeds to the morphological and phonological representations that include linear order. The...

This paper raises and discusses three questions about the structure of Meaning-Text Theory, based on consideration of the role that paradigmatic Lexical Functions play in its model of the lexicon: Is the paradigmatic-syntagmatic distinction meaningful? Do paradigmatic LFs represent redundant semantic information (and if so, is the redundancy justified)? And finally, might definitions of lexemes...

In this example, however, by the moment the word is has been read, the word p r o b l e m is already engaged in other strongly predicted constructions, namely the prepositional phrase of" this p r o b l e m and even the whole noun phrase the s o l u t i o n o f this p r o b l e m . A conflict arises, and plausibility of the new hypothesis becomes much lower. Such syntactic relations may concern...