It is commonly accepted that the process of pidginization leads to a loss of inflectional morphology, but this loss is often not total. Lexifier inflections instead follow a cline of reduction: full retention – partial retention – partial lexicalization – full lexicalization – full loss. This article examines the retention of inflection in 29 languages that reflect a history of pidginization in...

Natural Language Generation (NLG) techniques can be applied in generating virtual documents dynamically using information from a database (Dale et al, 1999). One of the applications of NLG techniques to generate documents dynamically is the web-based interactive virtual museum, VIGAN. NLG is used to generate the descriptions of the objects in a virtual museum dynamically based on the profile an...

This paper aims at exploiting Linked Data for generating natural text, often referred to as lexicalization. We propose a framework that can generate patterns which can be used to lexicalize Linked Data triples. Linked Data is structured knowledge organized in the form of triples consisting of a subject, a predicate and an object. We use DBpedia as the Linked Data source which is not only free b...

Word-finding difficulty (anomia) is the most common linguistic deficit in dementia. It is often measured by picture naming tasks as naming a picture taps all the major processes in word production, i.e., activation of a concept, retrieval of lexical-semantic information on that concept, retrieval of the corresponding word form and articulation. Naming and naming errors have extensively been sim...

1.1 Introduction This paper proposes the lexicalization of context in HPSG. Instead of phrasal amalgamation of contextual information from a phrase's daughters , which is speciied by the Principle of Contextual Consistency of Pollard and Sag 1994, we propose lexical amalgamation of context from a word's arguments by means of lexical constraints. The Principle of Contextual Consistency is replac...

We present an ILP model of concept-totext generation. Unlike pipeline architectures, our model jointly considers the choices in content selection, lexicalization, and aggregation to avoid greedy decisions and produce more compact texts.

Elicited production data from English, French and Japanese children reveal that predicates of ‘traversal’ (e.g. across, through) present a particular lexicalization difficulty in the early stages of acquisition, regardless of expression in verbs or adpositions. Adult-like lexicalization patterns are consistently produced only by 6 or 7 years old. In all three languages, children circumvent the ...

In this squib we explore a strictly derivational explanation for the differences in possible middle voice constructions in Norwegian and Swedish. Whereas Norwegian allows by its lexical s-passive construction as well as a complex adjectival construction to stand in for middle semantics, only the latter option is available in Swedish. We argue that this contrast lies in the lexicalization of for...

Sequential LSTM has been extended to model tree structures, giving competitive results for a number of tasks. Existing methods model constituent trees by bottom-up combinations of constituent nodes, making direct use of input word information only for leaf nodes. This is different from sequential LSTMs, which contain reference to input words for each node. In this paper, we propose a method for...