Modeling children's early grammatical knowledge

Modeling children's early grammatical knowledge.

Theories of grammatical development differ in how much abstract knowledge they attribute to young children. Here, we report a series of experiments using a computational model to evaluate the explanatory power of child grammars based not on abstract rules but on concrete words and phrases and some local abstractions associated with these words and phrases. We use a Bayesian procedure to extract...

Knowledge Ascription by Grammatical Construction

A Logic for Representing Grammatical Knowledge

Feature structures are partially speciied, record-like structures which are employed in many recent grammar formalisms to represent linguistic objects of various kinds. Building on previous approaches to the logical representation of linguistic knowledge, this paper presents a logical language which is suuciently expressive to allow for the encoding of recursive constraints on feature structure...

SMT Errors Requiring Grammatical Knowledge for Prevention

This paper introduces three types of Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) output errors that would require grammatical knowledge for prevention. The first type is due to words that are negative in meaning but not in form. Problems arise when the negative forms are obligatory in target languages. The second type of errors is derived from the rigidity of pattern phrases or correlatives which do ...

Network Data Modeling via Grammatical Structures

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