Unlike English, Chinese sentences do not have a strict syntactic structure and ellipsis is a common phenomenon, which weaken the effectiveness of syntactic structure in argument extraction. In Chinese event extraction, lots of arguments cannot be extracted from the sentence successfully, because of the loose connection between the nominal trigger and its arguments. This paper brings forward a n...

Minimalist grammars are a rich lexicalized syntactic formalism which inherits the depth and wide covering of the generative tradition. Nevertheless up to now there is no straightforward way to extract the predicative structure of a sentence from syntactic analyses and from the predicative structure of the lexical items. In this paper we try to apply to this richer syntactic model the traditiona...

Distributed word representation is an efficient method for capturing semantic and syntactic word relations. In this work, we introduce an extension to the continuous bag-of-words model for learning word representations efficiently by using implicit structure information. Instead of relying on a syntactic parser which might be noisy and slow to build, we compute weights representing probabilitie...

Syntactic priming refers to the fact that speakers are more likely to produce a target utterance with a given structure if they have previously produced (or comprehended) a prime with the same structure. In the experimental literature (e.g., Bock 1986), priming has only been studied in cases where there are two semantically equivalent structural alternatives (e.g., active and passive) in the pr...

Event-related potentials were recorded from 13 scalp locations while participants read sentences containing a syntactic ambiguity. In Experiment 1, syntactically disambiguating words that were inconsistent with the "favored" syntactic analysis elicited a positive-going brain potential (P600). Experiment 2 examined whether syntactic ambiguities are resolved by application of a phrase-structure-b...

In this paper we examine prosodic and syntactic structures of spontaneous English speech. By wavelet-based analysis, the prosodic structure of speech can be visually represented as a tree diagram. Combined with automatic syntactic parsing, this enables a novel method to compare prosodic and syntactic hierarchical structures in spoken language. In our research we segmented a sample of spontaneou...

In this paper, we investigate various strategies to predict both syntactic dependency parsing and contiguous multiword expression (MWE) recognition, testing them on the dependency version of French Treebank (Abeillé and Barrier, 2004), as instantiated in the SPMRL Shared Task (Seddah et al., 2013). Our work focuses on using an alternative representation of syntactically regular MWEs, which capt...

An essential part of the human capacity for language is the ability to link conceptual or semantic representations with syntactic representations. On the basis of data from spontaneous production, suggested that young children acquire such links on a verb-by-verb basis, with little in the way of a general understanding of linguistic argument structure. Here, we suggest that a receptive understa...

We report the results of experiments designed to investigate the effects of prosodic boundaries on resolving ambiguous syntactic clause boundaries in Japanese. The head-final, prodrop nature of this language generates abundant syntactic attachment ambiguity for sentences that contain relative clauses. Two types of sentences with differing head nouns modified by relative clauses were examined. S...

Speakers often repeat syntactic structures that have recently been used by them or their interlocutors. Such syntactic persistence has variously been attributed to social causes (mimicking to be well-liked), to an effort to reduce processing costs, or as a side effect of either transient activation of previously processed structure or implicit learning. We present new evidence from syntactic pe...