Introduction Treebanks used as: • " gold standard " training and testing material for computational linguists • data for linguists to search through for theoretically relevant patterns Introduction Treebanks used as: • " gold standard " training and testing material for computational linguists • data for linguists to search through for theoretically relevant patterns Treebanks generally result ...

This handsome collection (Chinese title being pu tong yu yan xue ren wu zhi) consists of eighteen articles devoted to eighteen linguists. It can be roughly divided into four sections, i.e. (1)Western European linguists (1-90), (2) American linguists (91-112), (3) Slavic linguists (113-172), and (4) Chinese linguists (173-213). The section onWesternEuropean linguists introduces Ferdinandde Sauss...

Connectionist modeling (AKA neural network modeling, connectionism) is rapidly becoming a dominant descriptive and theoretical tool for the psycholinguist. Below is a brief introduction to some of the terms and concepts used in connectionist modeling. Connectionist models are no different than any other sorts of theories in cognitive science, they merely offer a new computational toolbox, or se...

Given the importance of recursion in modern linguistics, there ought to be much to commend in Watumull et al.’s (2014) attempt to clarify what recursion is (or ought to be); I have trudged this very terrain myself, using some of the same sources, and in order to make similar points (e.g., Lobina, 2011, but especially in Lobina, 2012). However, there are so many issues with Watumull et al.’s own...

Data that has been annotated by linguists is often considered a gold standard on many tasks in the NLP field. However, linguists are expensive so researchers seek automatic techniques that correlate well with human performance. Linguists working on the ScamSeek project were given the task of deciding how many and which document classes existed in this previously unseen corpus. This paper invest...

for many linguists and scholars, the criterion of eloquence in arabic language is based upon the two elements of language and place and they have ignored internal criteria of words, internal order, kinds of letters, collocations, assonance, dissonance and the power of their impact. the fact is that, linguists and the scholars of eloquence were of different opinions about words. it means that li...

MT research requires cooperation between engineers and linguists. It is important, therefore, to develop a uniform linguistic terminology that can be understood and used by engineers. Furthermore, it is necessary that linguists develop an understanding of the engineering problems involved. The results of cooperation between linguists and engineers working with the MT Pilot Model at the Universi...

It is often said that many functional linguists lack a ‘theory’. Within formal linguistics, it is common to talk of different ‘theories’, such as Government-Binding Theory or Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. When formal linguists look at the work of functional linguists like Givón (1984, 1990, 1995), they do not see a ‘theory’ in the sense of formal theories like Government-Binding Theory,...