there are different processes to form new words in every language, including compounding, derivation, inflection, etc. in compounding, two lexical stems form a compound. in derivation and inflection, new words are coined by affixation or some phonetic changes. this kind of affixation is applied on the simple or compound stem. here our compound stem is a bound compound stem, consisting of a noun...

A method of analyzing Japanese utterances is developed for a new dialogue translation method, which is called the Intention Translation method. The analyzing method consists of two stages, (i) extraction of surface speech act types from input utterances, and (ii) extraction of less language-dependent speech act types from surface types. In the first stage, input utterances are analyzed in the u...

Our project is an extension of the project “Syntactico Semantic Word Representations in Multiple Languages”[1]. The previous project aims to improve the semantical representation of English vocabulary via incorporating the local context with global context and supplying homonymy and polysemy for multiple embeddings per word. It also introduces a new neural network architecture that learns the w...

This research investigates children’s knowledge of how surface pronunciations of lexical items vary according to their phonological and morphological context. Dutch-learning children aged 2.5 and 3.5 years were tested on voicing neutralization and morphophonological alternations. For instance, voicing does not alternate between the pair [pɛt]∼[pɛtən] (cap∼caps) but does in [bɛt]∼[bɛdən] (bed∼be...

In this paper we present a truly semantic-oriented approach for meronymy relation extraction. It directly operates, instead of syntactic trees or surface representations, on semantic networks (SNs). These SNs are derived from texts (in our case, the German Wikipedia) by a deep linguistic syntactico-se mantic analysis. The extraction of meronym/holonym pairs is carried out by using, among other...

We present an unsupervised and languageagnostic method for learning root-andpattern morphology in Semitic languages. We harness the syntactico-semantic information in distributed word representations to solve the long standing problem of root-and-pattern discovery in Semitic languages. The root-and-pattern morphological rules we learn in an unsupervised manner are validated by native speakers i...

Automatic phonetic transcription tools usually perform phonetic transcriptions directly from orthographic representations. Although these approaches often achieve good results, theoretical studies suggest that including morphophonological knowledge allows those systems to improve their performance. Following this idea, we developed a tool which first obtains an underlying representation of each...

In this paper we present a novel framework for morpheme segmentation which uses the morpho-syntactic regularities preserved by word representations, in addition to orthographic features, to segment words into morphemes. This framework is the first to consider vocabulary-wide syntactico-semantic information for this task. We also analyze the deficiencies of available benchmarking datasets and in...