Constituent assemblies

Arguing and Bargaining in Two Constituent Assemblies

In this Article I discuss the process of constitution-making at the Federal Convention in Philadelphia' and at the Assemblee Constituante in Paris from 1789 to 1791.2 In doing so, I shall be guided by three objectives. In increasing order of abstraction and, I hope, of competence, they are: historical, sociological and conceptual. First, the comparison between the two eighteenth-century assembl...

Constituent Transport

Constituent-based Accent Prediction

Near-perfect atttomatic accent assignment is attainable,for citation-s~le speech, but better computational models art, needed to predict accent in extended, spontaneous discourses. This paper presents an empirically motivated theory of the discourse ]bcttsing nature of accent in spontaneous speech. Hypotheses based on this theory lead to a new approach to accent prediction, in which patterns o ...

Combining Constituent Parsers

Combining the 1-best output of multiple parsers via parse selection or parse hybridization improves f-score over the best individual parser (Henderson and Brill, 1999; Sagae and Lavie, 2006). We propose three ways to improve upon existing methods for parser combination. First, we propose a method of parse hybridization that recombines context-free productions instead of constituents, thereby pr...

Constituent Quark Structure

In this talk I will motivate the the need for the constituent quark structure. I will also summarize results from the NJL model for the composites of the constituent quark and present an alternative QCD sum rule approach.