One of the tasks language documenters face is that of assigning glosses to function morphemes, including affixes. These glosses are typically used in marking up interlinear text at a morpheme level. But without a morphological parser, marking up interlinear text is tedious and error-prone. Ideally, a parser will be guided not only by the form and syntagmatic properties of morphemes, but also by...

This paper presents results from experiments in automatic classification of animacy for Norwegian nouns using decision-tree classifiers. The method makes use of relative frequency measures for linguistically motivated morphosyntactic features extracted from an automatically annotated corpus of Norwegian. The classifiers are evaluated using leave-oneout training and testing and the initial resul...

In this paper we explore two strategies to incorporate local morphosyntactic features in Hindi dependency parsing. These features are obtained using a shallow parser. We first explore which information provided by the shallow parser is most beneficial and show that local morphosyntactic features in the form of chunk type, head/non-head information, chunk boundary information, distance to the en...

We investigate statistical dependency parsing of two closely related languages, Croatian and Serbian. As these two morphologically complex languages of relaxed word order are generally under-resourced – with the topic of dependency parsing still largely unaddressed, especially for Serbian – we make use of the two available dependency treebanks of Croatian to produce state-of-the-art parsing mod...

Syncretism, where a single form corresponds to multiple morphosyntactic functions, is pervasive in languages with inflectional morphology. Its interpretation highlights the contrast between different views of the status of morphology. For some, morphology lacks independent structure, and syncretism reflects the internal structure of morphosyntactic features. For others, morphological structure ...

although explicit and implicit knowledge of language learners are essential to theoretical and pedagogical debates in second language acquisition (sla), little research has addressed the effects of instructional interventions on the two knowledge types (r. ellis, 2005).this study examined the relative effectiveness of explicit and implicit types of form-focused instruction (ffi) on the acquisit...

This paper analyzes the relative importance of different linguistic features for data-driven dependency parsing of Hindi, using a feature pool derived from two state-of-the-art parsers. The analysis shows that the greatest gain in accuracy comes from the addition of morphosyntactic features related to case, tense, aspect and modality. Combining features from the two parsers, we achieve a labele...

This paper describes development and design of an ontology of linguistic annotations, primarily word classes and morphosyntactic features, based on existing standardization approaches (e.g. EAGLES), a set of annotation schemes (e.g. for German, STTS and morphological annotations), and existing terminological resources (e.g. GOLD). The ontology is intended to be a platform for terminological int...

In this article, we have introduced the first parallel corpus of Persian with more than 10 other European languages. This article describes primary steps toward preparing a Basic Language Resources Kit (BLARK) for Persian. Up to now, we have proposed morphosyntactic specification of Persian based on EAGLE/MULTEXT guidelines and specific resources of MULTEXT-East. The article introduces Persian ...