This paper describes the GTH-CSTR systems developed for the Albayzin 2010 Speech Synthesis Evaluation. We have developed three different HMM-based systems to build synthetic voices in Spanish, using two hours of speech of a male speaker. We have improved our baseline system (GTHCSTR-2008) by using morphosyntactic features, iterative segmentation algorithms, enhanced feature analysis and speaker...

Background: Cleft palate (CP) with or without cleft lip (CL/P) are the most common  craniofacial birth defects.  Cleft lip and palate (CLP) can affect children’s communication skills.  The present study aimed to evaluate the language production skills in regards to morphology and syntax (morphosyntactic) of children with CLP . Method: In current cross-sectional study, 58 Persian-language child...

After presenting a new CCG supertagging algorithm based on morphological and dependency syntax information, we use this to create French Tree Bank corpus (20,261 sentences) the FTB by Abeillé et al. We then corpus, as well Groningen for English language, train BiLSTM+CRF neural architecture that uses (a) morphosyntactic input features (b) feature correlations features. show experimentally an in...

This paper describes the modeling of the morphosyntactic annotations of the MULTEXT-East corpora and lexicons as an OWL/DL ontology. Formalizing annotation schemes in OWL/DL has the advantages of enabling formally specifying interrelationships between the various features and making logical inferences based on the relationships between them. We show that this approach provides us with a top-dow...

The MULTEXT-East standardised and linked set of language resources covers a large number of mainly Central and Eastern European languages and includes harmonised morphosyntactic resources consisting of the specifications, lexica and a parallel corpus. The MULTEXT-East resources, currently at Version 3, are freely available for research use and have been used in numerous studies connected to lan...

This paper presents an implementation of Brill's Transformation-Based Part-of-Speech (POS) tagging algorithm trained on a manually-annotated Twitter-based Egyptian Arabic corpus of 423,691 tokens and 70,163 types. Unlike standard POS morphosyntactic annotation schemes which label each word based on its word-level morphosyntactic features, we use a function-based annotation scheme in which words...

The paper presents a novel approach to extracting dependency information in morphologically rich languages using co-occurrence statistics based not only on lexical forms (as in previously described collocation-based methods), but also on morphosyntactic and wordnet-derived semantic properties of words. Statistics generated from a corpus annotated only at the morphosyntactic level are used as fe...

Generic sentences (e.g., “birds lay eggs”) express generalizations about kinds, rather than facts about specific individuals or groups of individuals (e.g., “all birds lay eggs”). Generics are an important method of transmitting cultural knowledge, but because there is no unique marker of genericity, identifying whether a sentence is generic is a challenge. Here we investigated how morphosyntac...

Аннотация This paper describes a pilot study of the problem of detecting singleton mentions in Russian texts. A noun phrase is considered a singleton mention if it is the only referent of some entity. We discuss various morphosyntactic and lexical features, some of which were used for analogous tasks for English and propose new features derived from the discourse analysis. Testing the machine l...

Due to the formal variability and the irregular behaviour of MWEs on different levels of linguistic description, they are a potential source of errors for many NLP applications, e.g. Machine Translation. While most of the known approaches to MWE identification focus on one dimension of irregular behaviour, we present an approach that combines morpho-syntactic features (extracted from dependency...