In this paper, we describe an ongoing project of developing a treebank for Amharic. The main objective of developing the treebank is to use it as an input for the development of a parser. Morphologically-rich Languages like Arabic, Amharic and other Semitic languages present challenges to the state-of-art in parsing. In such language morphemes play important functions in both morphology and syn...

We present an eecient evaluation technique for modularly stratiied programs for which the local strata level mappings are known at compile time. We present an important subclass of these programs (called EMS-programs) in which one can easily express problems such as shortest distance, company ownership, bill of materials, preferential vote counting, and matrix diagonalization. Programs written ...

Syntactically annotated corpora are needed 1) to train and test parsers and various language technological products grammar checkers, information retrievers and extractors, machine translators etc; 2) to check the agreement of existing linguistic theories with the real language usage. The corpora can be annotated on different levels of depth. In shallow syntactically annotated corpora a syntact...

This paper presents a novel analysis of so-called gapless relative clause constructions such as Mandarin xiangpi ranshao de weidao (literally, ‘the smell that rubber burns’). Such constructions have been observed in East Asian languages. It is claimed that the Head noun of such relative clauses are relational nouns, and the clauses are their licensors. Syntactically, the Head nouns are predicat...