Syntactic and Semantic Valence: Morphosyntactic Evidence from Minangkabau

Machine Learning of Syntactic Attachment from Morphosyntactic and Semantic Co-occurrence Statistics

The paper presents a novel approach to extracting dependency information in morphologically rich languages using co-occurrence statistics based not only on lexical forms (as in previously described collocation-based methods), but also on morphosyntactic and wordnet-derived semantic properties of words. Statistics generated from a corpus annotated only at the morphosyntactic level are used as fe...

Towards Extending Syntactic Valence Dictionary for Polish with Semantic Categories

Semantic evaluation of syntactic structure: evidence from eye movements.

An eye movement study of temporarily ambiguous closure sentences confirmed that the early closure penalty in a sentence like While John hunted the frightened deer escaped is larger for a simple past verb (hunted) than for a past progressive verb (was hunting). The results can be explained by the observation that simple past tense verbs convey an external viewpoint on an event, which presumably ...

Standard for morphosyntactic and syntactic corpus annotation: The Morphosyntactic and the Syntactic Annotation Framework, MAF and SynAF

This talk is about the standards for morpho-syntactic and syntactic corpus annotation: MAF (Morpho-syntactic Annotation Framework, ISO/FDIS 24611) and SynAF (Syntactic Annotation Framework, ISO 24615:2010). Both standards complement each other and are closely related. In contrast to MAF, which describes features such as part of speech, morphological and grammatical features, SynAf describes rel...

Semantic Similarity from Syntactic Relations

This work presents the results of the application of a technique for automatic extraction of semantic relations between words from a corpus. The technique used is the one proposed by Grefenstette in [8]. We proposed contributions for the syntactic context notion adopted in [8], aiming to improve the identification of semantically related words. Such contributions include new information into th...