Many networks and accordingly their representation in graphs are subject to structural changes during the course of their existence [CKT06]. Examples for such evolutionary networks include friendship networks in online communities, co-authorship networks in the scientific domain and collocation networks in computational linguistics. Studying the evolution of such networks can provide vital data...

As my title suggests, this position paper focuses on the relevance of linguistics in NLP instead of asking the inverse question. Although the question about the role of computational linguistics in the study of language may theoretically be much more interesting than the selected topic, I feel that my choice is more appropriate for the purpose and context of this workshop. This position paper s...

This dissertation concerns the morphophonological alternation of lexical items, determined by syntactic position. It considers three types of inflection, positional allomorphy and certain examples of phenomena collectively called "contraction", and argues that the notion of lexical insertion into d-structure, underlying many current syntactic theories, has difficulty in accounting for these cas...

In linguistics metaphor has been recognized as a figurative word that serves artistic and journalistic style descriptive-decorative tool. But we did not pay much attention to the name-creating function of metaphor, fact it is tool brings out mental actions (associations, stereotypes) person through language. Metaphor's property revealing true world, including universal logical knowledge (primit...

In this position paper, we argue that although the data-driven, empirical paradigm for computational linguistics seems to be the best way forward at the moment, a thorough grounding in descriptive linguistics is still needed to do competent work in the field. Examples are given of how knowledge of linguistic phenomena leads to understanding the limitations of particular statistical models and t...

There are such great names in language studies as Noam Chomsky, Lev S. Vygotsky, Howard Gardener and Michael Halliday who are widely accredited with having introduced new concepts in linguistics and neighboring disciplines and to whom we remain deeply indebted. In this article which has been written on the occasion of Professor Henry Widdowson's visit in April 2018 to Azarbaijan Shahid Madani U...