South Dravidian Languages: Consistent Null Subject or Discourse Pro-Drop?

Translating Pro-Drop Languages with Reconstruction Models

Pronouns are frequently omitted in pro-drop languages, such as Chinese, generally leading to significant challenges with respect to the production of complete translations. To date, very little attention has been paid to the dropped pronoun (DP) problem within neural machine translation (NMT). In this work, we propose a novel reconstruction-based approach to alleviating DP translation problems ...

Joint Bayesian Morphology learning for Dravidian languages

In this paper a methodology for learning the complex agglutinative morphology of some Indian languages using Adaptor Grammars and morphology rules is presented. Adaptor grammars are a compositional Bayesian framework for grammatical inference, where we define a morphological grammar for agglutinative languages and morphological boundaries are inferred from a plain text corpus. Once morphologica...

When pro pro Pro-drop Languages Don't: on Overt Pronominal Subjects in Greek

An OLAC Extension for Dravidian Languages

OLAC was founded in 2000 for creating online databases of language resources. This paper intends to review the bottom-up distributed character of the project and proposes an extension of the architecture for Dravidian languages. An ontological structure is considered for effective natural language processing (NLP) and its advantages over statistical methods are reviewed

تحلیلی بین زبانی از پارامتر ضمیراندازی در زبان فارسی

پارامتر ضمیر اندازی را می‌توان همان "محدودیت نیاز به فاعل" در نظر گرفت که در اولین مطالعات زایشی در این زمینه توسط پرمیوتر (1971) مطرح شد (جگلی و سفیر 1991) . براساس این پارامتر زبان‌های فاعل تهی (null subject) یا ضمیر انداز (pro-drop) در جملات زمان‌دار می‌توانند دارای فاعل‌های ناملفوظ باشند و در مقابل زبان‌های غیر ضمیرانداز الزاماً ضمیر فاعلی با نمود آوایی دارند. به موجب این پارامتر، زبان‌های د...