A key concern in building syntax-based machine translation systems is how to improve coverage by incorporating more traditional phrase-based SMT phrase pairs that do not correspond to syntactic constituents. At the same time, it is desirable to include as much syntactic information in the system as possible in order to carry out linguistically motivated reordering, for example. We apply an exte...

the main goal of this research is to study, through the minimalist program, the mechanism of checking phi(φ)-features (person & number) and nominative case in persian sentences. different syntactic structures are examined in this paper. it is shown that verb raising is overt in persian and that the uninterpretable φ-features of the finite tense head are valued & checked by the interpretable φ-f...

The goal of the presented parallel phrase extraction algorithm is to provide rich and robust set of translation syntactic patterns. To make this approach feasible, we consider the phrase-to-phrase alignments of a bilingual treebank annotated with syntactic constituents. For the intended purpose, the extracted phrasal nodes are encoded by the syntactical information of their components, highligh...

Normally, the tense and aspect systems of natural languages do not coincide and the correct translation of the tense forms needs a semantic analysis of the text or sentence which uses these forms. The problem with semantic representations is that, often, ambiguities cannot be resolved, though a remarkable effort of inferencing has been invested to the effect that the analysis of the source text...

In this paper I discuss the properties of tense as a grammatical feature, understood as a set of values and the methods of their realization on linguistic elements. I outline the criteria for recognizing various featural dependencies: agreement, government, and different types of multirepresentation of a feature value in a domain. I examine more closely three instances of tense-aspect-mood-pola...

For the present paper, a Bayesian probabilistic framework for the task of automatic acquisition of intonational phrase breaks was established. By considering two different conditional independence assumptions, the naïve Bayes and Bayesian networks approaches were regarded and evaluated against the CART algorithm, which has been previously used with success. A finite length window of minimal mor...

This paper outlines a framework of the temporal interpretation in Chinese with a special focus on complement and relative clauses. It argues that not only Chinese has no morphological tenses but there is no need to resort to covert semantic features under a tense node in order to interpret time in Chinese. Instead, it utilizes various factors such as the information provided by default aspect, ...

It is natural to expect phrase structure to be important in predicting prosodic phrasing. Yet there appears to be a concensus that syntactic phrases do not correspond well to prosodic phrasing, and independent structures have been proposed to account for prosody. I propose that the problem with phrase structure lies with the particular measures of boundary strength applied to syntactic structur...

Mirror Theory is a syntactic framework developed in (Brody, 1997), where it is offered as a consequence of eliminating purported redundancies in Chomsky’s minimalism (Chomsky, 1995). A fundamental feature of Mirror Theory is its requirement that the syntactic head-complement relation mirror certain morphological relations (such as constituency). This requirement constrains the types of syntacti...

This research presents a comparison of the syntactic behavior of verbs represented in an online verb lexicon, VerbNet, and the actual behavior of the verbs in the SemLink corpus. To complete this comparison, each verbal instance of the SemLink corpus is reformulated into a syntactic frame, e.g. Noun Phrase – Verb – Noun Phrase, and compared to syntactic frames listed in VerbNet. Through this ef...