We propose an account for the acquisition of grammatical relations using the concepts of connectionist learning and a construction-based theory of grammar. The proposal is based on the observation that early production of childhood speech is formulaic and the assumption that the purpose of language is communication. If one assumes that children’s comprehension of multiword speech is not globall...

Ground vibrations caused by blasting are undesirable results in the mining industry and can cause serious damage to the nearby buildings and facilities; therefore, controlling such vibrations has an important role in reducing the environmental damaging effects. Controlling vibration caused by blasting can be achieved once peak particle velocity (PPV) is predicted. In this paper, the values of P...

This paper describes a new automatic approach for extracting conceptual distinctions from dictionary definitions. A broad-coverage dependency parser is first used to extract the lexical relations from the definitions. Then the relations are disambiguated using associations learned from tagged corpora. This contrasts with earlier approaches using manually developed rules for disambiguation.

In practice dependency management often suffers from labor intensity and complexity in creating and maintaining the dependency relations. Our method targets projects, where developers are geographically distributed and a wide range of tools is used. A conceptual domain model is used to inter-relate the development objects and to automate dependency link discovery. The proposed method is based o...