In this paper we describe a method for the efficient parsing of real-life Greek texts at the surface syntactic level. A grammar consisting of non-recursive regular expressions describing Greek phrase structure has been compiled into a cascade of finite state transducers used to recognize syntactic constituents. The implemented parser lends itself to applications where large scale text processin...

The topic of the syntax-phonology interface is broad, encompassing different submodules of grammar and interactions of these. This chapter addresses one fundamental aspect of the syntax-phonology interface in detail: the relation between syntactic constituency and the prosodic constituent domains for sentence-level phonological and phonetic phenomena. Two further core aspects, which rely on an ...

It is generally recognized that the common nonterminal labels for syntactic constituents (NP, VP, etc.) do not exhaust the syntactic and semantic information one would like about parts of a syntactic tree. For example, the Penn Treebank gives each constituent zero or more ‘function tags’ indicating semantic roles and other related information not easily encapsulated in the simple constituent la...

This paper presents and evaluates an original approach to automatically align bitexts at the word level. It relies on a syntactic dependency analysis of the texts and uses a machinelearning technique, namely inductive logic programming, to automatically infer rules called propagation rules. These rules make the most of the syntactic information to precisely align words. This approach is entirel...

All natural languages seem to distinguish at the semantic level between count nouns (CNs) and mass nouns (MNs). Some natural languages, like English, mark the distinction at the syntactic level. Prototypical of CNs is ‘dog’ and of MNs is ‘matter’ (in the sense of physical stuff, not in the sense of concern or affair). One syntactic difference is that usually CNs take the plural (‘dogs’) whereas...

This article describes the morphosyntactic annotation of the C-ORAL-BRASIL speech corpus, using an adapted version of the Palavras parser. In order to achieve compatibility with annotation rules designed for standard written Portuguese, transcribed words were orthographically normalized, and the parsing lexicon augmented with speech-specific material, phonetically spelled abbreviations etc. Usi...

In the paper a method of translation applied in a new system TGT is discussed. TGT translates texts written in Polish into corresponding utterances in the Polish sign language. Discussion is focused on text-into-text translation phase. Proper translation is done on the level of a predicative representation of the sentence. The representation is built on the basis of syntactic graph that depicts...

Abs t rac t . Previous works on assumption/guarantee specifications typically reason about relevant properties at the semantic level or define a special-purpose logic. We feel it is beneficial to formulate such specifications in a more widely used formalism. Specifically, we adopt the lineartime temporal logic (LTL) of Manna and Pnueli. We find that, with past temporal operators, LTL admits a s...

We argue that word meanings are not stored in a mental lexicon but are generated in the context of working memory from long-term memory traces that record our experience with words. Current statistical models of semantics, such as latent semantic analysis and the Topic model, describe what is stored in long-term memory. The CI-2 model describes how this information is used to construct sentence...