In this paper we propose an analysis of Danish pseudocoordination constructions. The analysis is based on a hybrid phrase hierarchy where phrase types are assumed to be subtypes of types that cut across the traditional division of phrasal types, allowing the phrasal type of pseudocoordinations to be a subtype of both coordinate phrases and headed phrases, and consequently inherit properties fro...

The phrase based systems for machine translation are limited by the phrases that they see during the training. For highly inflected languages, it is uncommon to see all the forms of a word in the parallel corpora used during training. This problem is amplified for verbs in highly inflected languages where the correct form of the word depends on factors like gender, number and tense aspect. We p...

Hierarchical phrase-based models are attractive because they provide a consistent framework within which to characterize both local and long-distance reorderings, but they also make it dif cult to distinguish many implausible reorderings from those that are linguistically plausible. Rather than appealing to annotationdriven syntactic modeling, we address this problem by observing the in uential...

This paper introduces the Syntax Game, a language game for exploring the origins of syntactic structure, specifically phrase structure. We define the game and propose a particular strategy for playing it. We show that this strategy leads to the emergence of a phrase structure grammar through the collective invention, adoption, and alignment of culturally established conventions.

For the present work, we attempt to study the issue of automatic acquisition of intonational phrase breaks. A mathematically well-formed framework is suggested, which is based on Bayesian theory. Based on two different assumptions regarding the conditional independence of the input attributes, we have come up with two Bayesian implementations, namely the Naïve Bayes and the Bayesian Networks cl...

In this paper, we extend the HMM wordto-phrase alignment model with syntactic dependency constraints. The syntactic dependencies between multiple words in one language are introduced into the model in a bid to produce coherent alignments. Our experimental results on a variety of Chinese–English data show that our syntactically constrained model can lead to as much as a 3.24% relative improvemen...

Statistical phrase-based machine translation requires no linguistic information beyond word-aligned parallel corpora (Zens et al., 2002; Koehn et al., 2003). Unfortunately, this linguistic agnosticism often produces ungrammatical translations. Syntax, or sentence structure, could provide guidance to phrasebased systems, but the “non-constituent” word strings that phrase-based decoders manipulat...

This article investigates the role of syntactic and prosodic markedness constraints on the construction of phonological phrases (/or p-phrases) in Catalan. It is shown that the construction of prosodic structure in this language cannot solely rely on syntactic information but rather also has to refer to prosodic markedness constraints which regulate the size and eurhythmicity of phrase constitu...

Recently, numerous statistical machine translation models which can utilize various kinds of translation rules are proposed. In these models, not only the conventional syntactic rules but also the non-syntactic rules can be applied. Even the pure phrase rules are includes in some of these models. Although the better performances are reported over the conventional phrase model and syntax model, ...

In this talk we will explore the syntactic structure of the " phrasal " Mandarin bi comparative. We aim to: • motivate the Mandarin comparative morpheme bi as a v head; • argue against Liu's (1996) PP analysis and Xiang's (2005) DegP analysis on syntactic grounds; • explore a neo-Davidsonian event-based conceptualization of comparison. A comparative generally involves two things to be compared,...