Inflectional frames in language production

Inflectional frames in language production

Stem complexity and inflectional encoding in language production.

Three experiments are reported that examined whether stem complexity plays a role in inflecting polymorphemic words in language production. Experiment 1 showed that preparation effects for words with polymorphemic stems are larger when they are produced among words with constant inflectional structures compared to words with variable inflectional structures and simple stems. This replicates ear...

Bulgarian Inflectional Morphology in Universal Networking Language

The paper presents a web-based application of semantic networks to model Bulgarian inflectional morphology. It demonstrates the general ideas, principles, and problems of inflectional grammar knowledge representation used for encoding Bulgarian inflectional morphology in Universal Networking Language (UNL). The analysis of UNL formalism is outlined in terms of its expressive power to present in...

Coreference Annotation Schema for an Inflectional Language

Creating a coreference corpus for an inflectional and freeword-order language is a challenging task due to specific syntactic features largely ignored by existing annotation guidelines, such as the absence of definite/indefinite articles (making quasi-anaphoricity very common), frequent use of zero subjects or discrepancies between syntactic and semantic heads. This paper comments on the experi...

Spoken Document Retrieval in a Highly Inflectional Language

Being able to search for relevant information within a collection of documents is vital for the effective use of any kind of storage media. The main body of Spoken Document Retrieval research has concentrated on the English language, leaving other languages – and information produced in them – without the benefit of existing SDR systems. Especially the performance of vocabulary based speech rec...