Clausal complementation in South Slavic

Varieties of Clausal Complementation

This thesis argues that clausal arguments of mental-state predicates divide into two main types: those that express the content, or "subject matter" of the mental state, and those that express the cause of the mental state. My central theoretical claim is that this dichotomy corresponds to a difference in syntactic structure. I propose that these different structures derive from an operation of...

Clausal Complementation and Selection

ASR for South Slavic Languages Developed in Almost Automated Way

Slavic languages pose several specific challenges that need to be addressed in an ASR system design. Since we have already built an engine suited for highly-inflected languages, we focus on adopting it for new languages, now. In this case, we present an efficient way to adapt the system to all (seven) South Slavic languages, using methods and tools that benefit from language similarities, easil...

Speech Technologies for Serbian and Kindred South Slavic Languages

This chapter will present the results of the research and development of speech technologies for Serbian and other kindred South Slavic languages used in five countries of the Western Balkans, carried out by the University of Novi Sad, Serbia in cooperation with the company AlfaNum. The first section will describe particularities of highly inflected languages (such as Serbian and other language...

Corpus-Based Diacritic Restoration for South Slavic Languages

In computer-mediated communication, Latin-based scripts users often omit diacritics when writing. Such text is typically easily understandable to humans but very difficult for computational processing because many words become ambiguous or unknown. Letter-level approaches to diacritic restoration generalise better and do not require a lot of training data but word-level approaches tend to yield...