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...

Much is known about the acquisition of phonological competence and lexical categories, but there has been substantially less research into word meaning development. In an attempt to contribute to this debate, a group of 24 children aged 4-11 were asked to define a set of words, as were a group of 12 adult controls. The stimuli included both concrete and abstract words, in particular words exhib...

This paper addresses the need for re-examining the cognitive perspective on the role of language in social research. From the autopoietic perspective, language is not a tool to reveal an objective world; rather language is a venue for action, coupling the cognitive domains of two or more agents. Responsible research enquiry would seek to create systemic communication practices that allow the co...

Computing inter-annotator agreement measures on a manually annotated corpus is necessary to evaluate the reliability of its annotation. However, the interpretation of the obtained results is recognized as highly arbitrary. We describe in this article a method and a tool that we developed which “shuffles” a reference annotation according to different error paradigms, thereby creating artificial ...

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The Problem: Words in natural language sentences exhibit regularities in where they can appear in a sentence. These regularities are captured as parts of speech: nouns name things in the world; verbs represent actions and events; adjectives and adverbs describe properties of nouns and manners of verbs. Natural language has tremendous freedom in sharing meaning between these parts of speech (con...