Natural Language Based Posting Account Classification

Models of Language Towards a practice-based account of information in natural language

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The language faculty that wasn't: a usage-based account of natural language recursion

In the generative tradition, the language faculty has been shrinking-perhaps to include only the mechanism of recursion. This paper argues that even this view of the language faculty is too expansive. We first argue that a language faculty is difficult to reconcile with evolutionary considerations. We then focus on recursion as a detailed case study, arguing that our ability to process recursiv...

Classification of natural language based on character frequency

Improving Classification-Based Natural Language Understanding with Non-Expert Annotation

Although data-driven techniques are commonly used for Natural Language Understanding in dialogue systems, their efficacy is often hampered by the lack of appropriate annotated training data in sufficient amounts. We present an approach for rapid and cost-effective annotation of training data for classification-based language understanding in conversational dialogue systems. Experiments using a ...

Investigating classification for natural language processing tasks

This thesis investigates the application of classification techniques to four natural language processing (NLP) tasks. The classification paradigm falls within the family of statistical and machine learning (ML) methods and consists of a framework within which a mechanical ‘learner’ induces a functional mapping between elements drawn from a particular sample space and a set of designated target...