We focus on syntactic aspects of differential awareness that give rise to contractual disputes. Boundedly rational parties use a common language, but do not share a common understanding of the world, leading to ambiguity in both syntactic and semantic forms. In contractual relationships, ambiguity leads to disagreement and disputes. We show that the agents may prefer simpler less ambiguous cont...

This paper presents a statistical lexical ambiguity resolution method in direct transfer machine translation models in which the target language is Turkish. Since direct transfer MT models do not have full syntactic information, most of the lexical ambiguity resolution methods are not very helpful. Our disambiguation model is based on statistical language models. We have investigated the perfor...

We present a study of the impact of morphological and syntactic ambiguity in the process of grammatical error detection. We will present three different systems that have been devised with the objective of detecting grammatical errors in Basque and will examine the influence of ambiguity in their results. We infer that the ambiguity rate in the input to an error detection tool can have a consid...

Two experiments investigated the effects of prosody and visual context on syntactic ambiguity resolution. The results from the first experiment showed increased processing difficulty when prosodic structure conflicted with syntactic structure, consistent with previous reports. In the second, both prosody and visual context were manipulated. The results showed that conflicting visual context can...

We focus on syntactic aspects of differential awareness that give rise to contractual disputes. Boundedly rational parties use a common language, but do not share a common understanding of the world, leading to ambiguity in both syntactic and semantic forms. In contractual relationships, ambiguity leads to disagreement and disputes. We show that the agents may prefer simpler less ambiguous cont...

Ambiguity is an inherent property of natural language. Its most prominent manifestations comprise syntactic ambiguity, lexical ambiguity, scope ambiguity and referential ambiguity. Considering the high frequency with which ambiguity occurs in unrestricted natural language, it is surprising how seldom ambiguity causes misunderstandings. Most linguistic ambiguities in inter-human communication ev...

Eighty Ss saw a picture, heard a sentence, and judged the sentence true or false with respect to the picture. After five unambiguous sentences of a single syntactic structure, an ambiguous sentence was presented. Results for the ambiguous sentence revealed (a) that the ambiguity was most often perceived when both interpretations of the sentence were true with respect to the picture, (b) that re...

The paper focuses on the issues of language structures disambiguation in machine translation.The moodel for establishing semantic content of syntactic structures in the English and Russian languages is proposed. Particular attention is given to syntactic polysemy and ambiguity, and the mechanisms of disambiguation. The phenomenon of syntactic polysemy determines the possible multiple transfer s...

For over a century, a link between left prefrontal cortex and language processing has been accepted, yet the precise characterization of this link remains elusive. Recent advances in both the study of sentence processing and the neuroscientific study of frontal lobe function suggest an intriguing possibility: The demands to resolve competition between incompatible characterizations of a linguis...

We present a large (65 million words of Wall Street Journal) and in-depth corpus study of a particular syntactic ambiguity to investigate (1) to what extent the structure of a grammar is reeected in a corpus, and (2) how probability functions deened according to a grammar t independently established measures of syntactic disambiguation preference. We look at the well-known case of the ambiguity...