LANGUAGE TRANSFER AND UNIVERSAL GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS

Parsing of Grammatical Relations for Databases of Spoken Language

Despite the significant advances in syntactic parsing of written text, the application of these techniques to spontaneous spoken language has received more limited attention. The explosive growth of available corpora of transcribed spoken language opens up new opportunities in that direction. High accuracy parsers for spoken language will in turn provide a platform for development of a wide ran...

Filtering Offensive Language in Online Communities using Grammatical Relations

Offensive language has arisen to be a big issue to the health of both online communities and their users. To the online community, the spread of offensive language undermines its reputation, drives users away, and even directly affects its growth. To users, viewing offensive language brings negative influence to their mental health, especially for children and youth. When offensive language is ...

The Assignment Of Grammatical Relations In Natural Language Processing

One of the main goals of an interpreter is to map the syntactic descriptions found in the sentence into the correct roles that the elements (described by the nominals) play in the situation at hand (described by the verb). For instance, we must be able to state that in 1) The cat ate the mouse the cat is the "eater" and the mouse is the "eaten thing". Of course, if we only talk about roles and ...

Universal Parsing and Grammatical Variation

Universal and Language-specific Dependency Relations for Analysing Romanian

This paper is meant as a brief description of the Romanian syntax within the dependency framework, more specifically within the Universal Dependency (UD) framework, and is the result of a volunteer activity of mapping two independently created Romanian dependency treebanks to the UD specifications. This mapping process is not trivial, as concessions have to be made and solutions need to be foun...