The paper analyses the application of DATR language for lexical knowledge presentation for interpreting Bulgarian inflectional morphology. It discuss the semantic network of the feature of definiteness in Bulgarian language and compares the lexical knowledge representation for the different part-of-speech with respect to the defined grammar rules, the sound alternations, the related formal pres...

In this paper we describe composition of a corpus of grammars in a broad sense in order to enable reuse of knowledge accumulated in the field of grammarware engineering. The Grammar Zoo displays the results of grammar hunting for big grammars of mainstream languages, as well as collecting grammars of smaller DSLs and extracting grammatical knowledge from other places. It is already operational ...

Completely data-driven grammar training is prone to over-fitting. Human-defined word class knowledge is useful to address this issue. However, the manual word class taxonomy may be unreliable and irrational for statistical natural language processing, aside from its insufficient linguistic phenomena coverage and domain adaptivity. In this paper, a formalized representation of function word subc...

This quasi-experimental study examined the effects of input-based, meaning-based output (MO) and traditional instruction (TI) on EFL learners’ grammar learning. To this end, 120 junior high school students were selected from 4 intact classes. Each class was assigned to an instructional condition, that is, textual enhancement (TE), input flood (IF), MO, and TI. Before the treatment, a multiple-c...

Chinese character structure has often been described as representing a kind of grammar, but the notion of character grammar has hardly been explored. Patterns in character element reduplication are particularly grammar-like, displaying discrete combinatoriality, binarity, phonology-like final prominence, and potentially the need for symbolic rules (X→XX). To test knowledge of these patterns, Ch...

1. GRAMMAR AND LANGUAGE FORM. 1.1. WHAT GAHL AND GARNSEY (2004) SHOW. There is widespread consensus that one of the tasks of a grammar is to describe the form of language. What Gahl and Garnsey (2004; henceforth G&G) show is that the description of both /t,d/-deletion and word and pause durations in American English needs to make reference to statements of the form ‘such-and-such a syntactic co...

This demonstration presents the LinGO Grammar Matrix grammar customization system: a repository of distilled linguistic knowledge and a web-based service which elicits a typological description of a language from the user and yields a customized grammar fragment ready for sustained development into a broad-coverage grammar. We describe the implementation of this repository with an emphasis on h...

Generally, speech recognition engines can employ two different grammar methods, rule and dictation, to recognize an utterance. The purpose of these grammars is to constrain the search space in a way that anticipates the speaker’s utterance. The research described in this paper attempts to maintain the accuracy of a rule grammar without limiting the speaker to rigorous phraseology. Latent Semant...

In Order and Structure I have two main goals. First, I argue that the grammar should be viewed as an incremental left-to-right structure building system, and that this solves a number of problems in constituent structure. Second, I reassess the relationship between linguistic knowledge and language processing, and argue that mental systems for grammar and processing can be viewed as identical. ...