In light of the studies that investigate when and how English-speaking young children exhibit adult-like abstraction of syntax, this study explores these issues by examining Mandarin-speaking preschoolers ranging from 2to 5-year-olds’ comprehension of the Mandarin SVO-, ba-, long-passive, and short-passive constructions using the forced-choice pointing paradigm. The results indicated that at th...

Attention mechanism, including global attention and local attention, plays a key role in neural machine translation (NMT). Global attention attends to all source words for word prediction. In comparison, local attention selectively looks at fixed-window source words. However, alignment weights for the current target word often decrease to the left and right by linear distance centering on the a...

This paper discusses root phenomena in imperative clauses, assuming as diagnostics conversational dynamics and the type of discourse categories that are admitted their C-domain, through a systematic comparative interface investigation three languages (English, Italian Spanish) based on an original experimental work. novel perspective sheds new light syntax-semantics mapping (syntax-prosody) pro...

In this paper, we describe the system and approach used by the Institute for Infocomm Research (IR) for the IWSLT 2009 spoken language translation evaluation campaign. Two kinds of machine translation systems are applied, namely, phrase-based machine translation system and syntax-based machine translation system. To test syntax-based machine translation system on spoken language translation, va...

The present study explores the acceptability of postverbal subjects by intermediate and advanced L2 English learners with L1 Macedonian, a pro-drop Slavic language rich verbal morphology. two languages differ regarding distribution subject-verb inversion (SVI): in it is default pattern thetic sentences, but severely restricts SVI to specific contexts. To test hypothesis that Macedonian encounte...

The Core Language Engine (CLE) is a domain independent system for translating natural language (English) sentences into formal representations of their literal meanings which are capable of supporting reasoning. It is designed to be used as a major component of interactive advisor systems such as interfaces to database management systems and diagnostic expert systems. The main contribution of t...

◮ To explore this line of research, we need an explicit representation of information structure and its interaction. ◮ German and English are intonation languages: ◮ Prosody plays an important role in constraining the possible integration of a sentence into the discourse. ◮ Research relating syntax, information structure, and intonation predominantly theoretically driven ◮ partly contradictory ...