İmmediate Constituent Analysis

A Constituent-Level Analysis of Home Style

While studies of representation often focus on policy congruence between voters and elites, the relationship between the two sets of actors is not limited to ideological alignment. Rather, legislators engage in non-policy activities to win favor with those voters who may be unreachable with respect to policy. By partaking in home styles that highlight their most favorable attributes, members of...

Utilizing constituent structure for compound analysis

Compounding is extremely productive in Icelandic and multi-word compounds are common. The likelihood of finding previously unseen compounds in texts is thus very high, which makes out-of-vocabulary words a problem in the use of NLP tools. The tool described in this paper splits Icelandic compounds and shows their binary constituent structure. The probability of a constituent in an unknown (or u...

Constituent Transport

A Comprehensive Analysis of Constituent Coordination for Grammar Engineering

This paper provides an explicit, formal analysis of two not only interesting but also frequent coordination phenomena: the coordination of unlike categories and the coordination of distinct grammatical functions possibly belonging to entirely different levels of structure. The proposed account of the former makes it possible to take full advantage of new generation valence dictionaries which en...

Analysis of spatial cross-correlations in multi-constituent volume data.

We investigate spatial cross-correlations between two constituents, both belonging to the same microstructure. These investigations are based on two approaches: one via the measurement of the cross-correlation function and the other uses the spatial distances between the constituents. The cross-correlation function can be measured using the fast Fourier transform, whereas the distances are dete...