Noninformative Inflectional Operations in Tamil

Noninformative Priors and Nuisance Parameters

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Inflectional periphrasis in Persian

Modern Persian conjugation makes use of five periphrastic constructions. We contrast the properties of these five constructions and argue that they call for different analyses. We propose contrasting analyses relying on the combination of an HPSG approach to feature geometry and syntactic combination, and an approach to paradigm organization and morphological exponence based on Paradigm Functio...

Tamil IT ! : Interactive Speech Translation in Tamil

The Tamil IT! (Interactive Translation) speech translation system is intended to allow unsophisticated users to communicate across the Tamil ↔ English language barrier, without strong domain restrictions, despite the error prone nature of current speech and translation technologies. Achieving this ambitious goal depends in large part on allowing the users to interactively correct recognition an...

Inflectional frames in language production

Learning Inflectional Classes

We describe several experiments in computational modeling that require a system to infer the existence of inflectional classes, which are morphological classes that play a role in neither syntax nor semantics. A feed-forward connectionist model will utilize patterns of activation (rather than units) in its hidden layer to encode such abstract morphological patterns. We compare this with discuss...