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The syntax of individuating and measuring pseudo-partitives in Alasha Mongolian
Pseudo-partitive constructions give rise to multiple interpretive ambiguities including a container interpretation (i.e. individuating) and a...
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The Construction of a Chinese Semantic Dependency Graph Bank
Semantic dependency parsing is a deep semantic analysis task based on large-scale and canonically annotated corpora. This chapter will present a new...
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A study on methods for revising dependency treebanks: in search of gold
Reliably annotated corpora with reliable annotation are a valuable resource for Natural Language Processing, which justifies the search for methods...
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From extended chunking to dependency parsing using traditional Arabic grammar
We describe in this paper the adopted approach combining a phrase structure grammar and dependency rules to develop AlkhalilPArser. The general...
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The External Syntax of Conditional Clauses
The chapter looks at the typology of conditional clauses against the background of the wider typology of adverbial clauses, focusing on their...
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Data-driven dependency parsing of Vedic Sanskrit
This paper describes the first data-driven parser for Vedic Sanskrit, an ancient Indo-Aryan language in which a corpus of important religious and...
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A Neural Network Classifier Based on Dependency Tree for English-Vietnamese Statistical Machine Translation
Reordering in MT is a major challenge when translating between languages with different of sentence structures. In Phrase-based statistical machine...
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Resources for Turkish dependency parsing: introducing the BOUN Treebank and the BoAT annotation tool
In this paper, we introduce the resources that we developed for Turkish dependency parsing, which include a novel manually annotated treebank (BOUN...
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Training and evaluation of vector models for Galician
This paper presents a large and systematic assessment of distributional models for Galician. To this end, we have first trained and evaluated static...
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On Karttunen’s “The Syntax and Semantics of Questions”
Karttunen’s article on the syntax and semantics of questions is a milestone in the truth-conditional compositional semantics of interrogatives and of...
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Assessing introspective linguistic judgments quantitatively: the case of The Syntax of Chinese
The informal judgments of the well-formedness of phrases and sentences have long been used as the primary data source for syntacticians. In recent...
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On wh-copying in Mon
This paper presents the first detailed study of pronouncing multiple wh -pronouns within the same dependency in Mon (Mon-Khmer). I argue the data...
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There is only one más: Spanish que/de comparative alternation
Spanish has two forms to introduce comparative standards: que ‘that’ and de ‘of.’ The comparative morpheme is always the same más ‘-er/more.’ While que ...
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Microsyntax meets macrosyntax: Russian neg-words revisited
This paper offers a new analysis of Russian syntactic idioms consisting of stressed general negation n´e - fused with a wh -word ( k -word). The elements...
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Cross-linguistically consistent semantic and syntactic annotation of child-directed speech
Corpora of child speech and child-directed speech (CDS) have enabled major contributions to the study of child language acquisition, yet semantic...
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Syntax and processing in Seediq: an event-related potential study
In many languages with subject-before-object as a syntactically basic word order, transitive sentences in which the subject precedes the object have...
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Syntax and processing in Seediq: a behavioral study
Syntactic properties such as word orders are a major factor determining the difficulty of a sentence. In SO-type languages where the subject (S)...
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Understanding conversational interaction in multiparty conversations: the EVA Corpus
This paper focuses on gaining new knowledge through observation, qualitative analytics, and cross-modal fusion of rich multi-layered conversational...
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Quantifying into wh-dependencies: multiple-wh questions and questions with a quantifier
Questions with a quantificational subject have readings that seemingly involve quantification into questions (called ‘ QiQ ’ for short). In particular,...
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Categorial selection and functional structure in the noun phrase: revisiting Russian small nominals
Given the well-attested selectional asymmetries between clauses and nominals, selection-based empirical arguments for the projection of functional...
