Incremental parsing with a context free grammar produces partial syntactic structures for an initial fragment on the word-by-word basis. Owing to the syntactic ambiguity, however, too many structures are produced, and therefore its parsing speed becomes very slow. This paper describes a technique for efficient incremental parsing using lexical information. The probability concerning dependencie...

This paper shows that clausal possession in Isbukun Bunun, a Formosan language, involves two distinct structures with one single thematic interpretation. Although thematically identical, the are not derived via agreement/movement from underlying structure. To best capture (morpho)syntactic patterns within and beyond phenomenon, too-many-structures problem is analyzed as involving syntactic head...

In this paper we describe the usage of the syntactic parser synt (developed in the NLP Centre at Masaryk University) to gain information about syntactic structures (such as noun or verb phrases) of common sentences in Czech. These structures are from the analysis point of view usually identical to nonterminals in the grammar used by the parser to find possible valid derivations of the given sen...

This study presents a comparison between syntactic and prosodic phrasing. A parser is used to calculate the syntactic structures from the orthographic text the prosodic structures of which are given by means of ToBI label files. For the automatic evaluation the prosodic break indices "3" (intermediate phrase boundary) and "4" (intonation phrase boundary) are compared with the terminals extracte...

Parsing predicate-argument structures in a deep syntax framework requires graphs to be predicted. Argument structures represent a higher level of abstraction than the syntactic ones and are thus more difficult to predict even for highly accurate parsing models on surfacic syntax. In this paper we investigate deep syntax parsing, using a French data set (Ribeyre et al., 2014a). We demonstrate th...

Semantic stochastic sentence realization is still in its fledgling stage. Most of the available stochastic realizers start from syntactic structures or shallow semantic input structures which still contain numerous syntactic features. This is unsatisfactory since sentence generation traditionally starts from abstract semantic or conceptual structures. However, a change of this state of affairs ...

Fine et al. (2013) recently demonstrated that readers continually adapt their syntactic expectations in order to accurately approximate the distributions of syntactic structures in a given communicative context. Here, we examine patterns of eye movements as subjects read sentences that contain an atypical distribution of syntactic structures to gain more fine-grained insight into the time-cours...

This paper describes an unusual approach to the partial syntactic analysis of unrestricted German text. Unlike most other chunk parsers, which are specially designed and implemented for the single purpose of annotating syntactic structures, YAC is the result of a slow evolution from on-line to off-line analysis. As we formulated increasingly complex queries in the CQP query language, some of wh...

This work focuses on the relationship between prosodic and syntactic domains in order to investigate whether there is a preferred syntactic domain of tonal units and whether there is a preferred prosodic domain of syntactic constituents. Two independent analyses of phonetic prosodic boundaries of syntactic constituents and of syntactic structure of prosodic constituents in Italian spontaneous d...

This paper investigates a special type of recurrent expressions, lexical bundles, defined as a sequence of three or more words that co-occur frequently in a particular register (Biber et al., 1999). Considering the importance of this group of multi-word sequences in academic prose, this study explores the forms and syntactic structures of three- and four-word bundles in English abstracts writte...