In this paper, we investigate the differences between Hungarian sentence parses based on automatically converted and manually annotated dependency trees. We also train constituency parsers on the manually annotated constituency treebank and then convert their output to dependency trees. We argue for the importance of training on gold standard corpora, and we also demonstrate that although the r...

Many studies discuss approaches for the evaluation of DSS. Few, however, provide a method to allow the context of the evaluation to be explicitly considered. This paper proposes a DSS evaluation method based on multiple criteria and incorporating a multiple constituency perspective. The approach proposed can be used for any group constituencies, involved in DSS project at any stage. With multip...

The paper reviews the kinds of representation of syntagmatic grammatical relations typically empl~'ed in grammar models used in computational linguistics. Exemplars of dependencyonly, constituency-only and hybrid constituencydependency approaches will be considered. In a move away fi'om the much discussed question 'Constituency or dependency?', the purpose of the paper is to ask more radically:...

Traditional approaches to quantiier scope typically need stipulation to exclude readings that are unavailable to human under-standers. This paper shows that quantiier scope phenomena can be precisely characterized by a semantic representation constrained by surface constituency, if the distinction between referential and quantii-cational NPs is properly observed. A CCG implementation is describ...

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The boundary between known and he is unsurprising, since it coincides with a syntactic boundary between a preposed adverbial phrase and the main clause. By contrast, the second prosodic constituent, he brought out departs dramatically from standard syntactic constituency; for the subject he has a tighter juncture with the following main verb (plus particle) than the latter does with its noun ph...

This paper looks at integrating dependency and constituency into a common framework, using the TAG formalism and a different perspective on the metagrammar of (Dras, 1999) in which the meta level models dependencies and the object level model constituency. This framework gives consistent dependency analyses of raising verbs interacting with bridge verbs, solving a problem in Synchronous TAG. An...

We introduce a constituency parser based on a bi-LSTM encoder adapted from recent work (Cross and Huang, 2016b; Kiperwasser and Goldberg, 2016), which can incorporate a lower level character biLSTM (Ballesteros et al., 2015; Plank et al., 2016). We model two important interfaces of constituency parsing with auxiliary tasks supervised at the word level: (i) part-of-speech (POS) and morphological...

Mirror Theory is a syntactic framework developed in (Brody, 1997), where it is offered as a consequence of eliminating purported redundancies in Chomsky’s minimalism (Chomsky, 1995). A fundamental feature of Mirror Theory is its requirement that the syntactic head-complement relation mirror certain morphological relations (such as constituency). This requirement constrains the types of syntacti...