: Guaymi Grammar and Dictionary . Ephraim S. Alphonse.

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Encoding a syntactic dictionary into a super granular unification grammar

We show how to turn a large-scale syntactic dictionary into a dependency-based unification grammar where each piece of lexical information calls a separate rule, yielding a super granular grammar. Subcategorization, raising and control verbs, auxiliaries and copula, passivization, and tough-movement are discussed. We focus on the semantics-syntax interface and offer a new perspective on syntact...

sanai's poems in dehkhoda dictionary

this article deals with two main issues: firstly, it investigates the status of sanai's poetry in the development of dehkhoda dictionary. to achieve this end, examples cited from sanai's poems by the authors of dehkhoda dictionary have been examined. the study reveals that in quite a good number of cases, sanai's poems have been the exclusive source for the borrowed examples and the dictionary ...

Towards a Grammar of S Incorporating Paralingu

This paper reports on recent developments for the creation and analysis of very large databases of emotional and attitudinallymarked speech for the support of research into concatenative methods for producing synthesised speech which is capable of expressing the range of prosody and phonation styles to emulate human spoken interactions. It addresses the problems of ensuring high spontaneity in ...

S-RAD: A Simple and Robust Abbreviation Dictionary

The Simple and Robust Abbreviation Dictionary (S-RAD) provides an easy to implement, high performance tool for the construction of a biomedical symbol dictionary. We describe and evaluate the algorithms of the system and apply it to the MEDLINE document set. The resulting dictionary represents a useful tool to researchers and provides programmers with a mechanism to disambiguate abbreviation sy...