Three times a year I get my copy of a wholly respectable mainstream linguistics journal. Its scholarly articles are rich in examples from varied languages, and alongside these detailed analyses it advances theoretical claims and counterclaims. Its many reviews point to much more of the same. But this journal content is of interest here for another reason than these scholarly ones. First, refere...

ABSTRACT Discourse Diversity Database (3D) is a corpus designed for clinical linguistics research. It consists of oral speech samples three different genres: picture-elicited narratives, personal stories, and picture-based instructions. The sub-sections 3D include recordings by Russian speakers from independent groups: people with brain tumors before after tumor removal, schizophrenia, neurolog...

As my title suggests, this position paper focuses on the relevance of linguistics in NLP instead of asking the inverse question. Although the question about the role of computational linguistics in the study of language may theoretically be much more interesting than the selected topic, I feel that my choice is more appropriate for the purpose and context of this workshop. This position paper s...

This dissertation concerns the morphophonological alternation of lexical items, determined by syntactic position. It considers three types of inflection, positional allomorphy and certain examples of phenomena collectively called "contraction", and argues that the notion of lexical insertion into d-structure, underlying many current syntactic theories, has difficulty in accounting for these cas...

In this paper we describe a parameterizable and domain-adaptive Information Extraction (IE) system (for German texts) and present some ideas on how this kind of system could effectively support Corpus Linguistics (CL) tasks. We also tentatively address the complementary question and look in which sense corpus linguistics can be beneficial to IE, specially in the case of automatic learning of te...

Users of Natural Language Generation systems are required to have sophisticated linguistic and sometimes even programming knowledge, which has hindered the adoption of this technology by individuals outside the computational linguistics research community. We have designed and implemented a visual environment for creating and modifying NLG templates which requires no programming ability and min...