A method for automatic acquisition of Japanese grammar and unknown cognitive units

Automatic Grammar Acquisition

We describe a series of three experiments in which supervised learning techniques were used to acquire three different types of grammars for English news stories. The acquired grammar types were: 1) context-free, 2) context-dependent, and 3) probabilistic context-free. Training data were derived from University of Pennsylvania Treebank parses of 50 Wall Street Journal articles. In each case, th...

conceptual metaphor and the acquisition of english metaphorical competence by persian english majors: a cognitive linguistic approach

بنا براستدلال زبانشناسان شناختی ، اندیشه آدمی تا حدّ زیادی استعاری است: ما اندیشه ای را، و یا قلمرو مفهومی معیّنی را، بر حسب اندیشه و یا قلمرو مفهومی معیّن دیگری درک ویا تجربه می کنیم. موارد این نوع اندیشیدن ، که استعارات مفهومی خوانده می شوند، در زبان های گوناگون به صورت تعبیرات استعاری واقعیّت می یابند. به گمان بعضی از پزوهشگران زبان دوم، آموزش وفراگیری این گونه تعبیرات باید بخشی لازم از برنامه ه...

critical period effects in foreign language learning:the influence of maturational state on the acquisition of reading,writing, and grammar in english as a foreign language

since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...

Automatic Acquisition of Lexical-Functional Grammar Resources from a Japanese Dependency Corpus

This paper describes a method for automatic acquisition of wide-coverage treebank-based deep linguistic resources for Japanese, as part of a project on treebankbased induction of multilingual resources in the framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG). We automatically annotate LFG f-structure functional equations (i.e. labelled dependencies) to the Kyoto Text Corpus version 4.0 (KTC4) (Kuro...

Semi-automatic Acquisition of Command Grammar