This paper presents results from the first statistical dependency parser for Turkish. Turkish is a free-constituent order language with complex agglutinative inflectional and derivational morphology and presents interesting challenges for statistical parsing, as in general, dependency relations are between “portions” of words – called inflectional groups. We have explored statistical models tha...

Many languages make use of verbal forms to express spatial relations and distinctions. Spatial notions are lexicalized into verb roots, as in come and go; they are expressed by derivational morphology such as Ineseño Chumash maquti ‘hither and thither’ or Shasta ehée ‘downward’ (Mithun 1999: 140-141); and, I will argue, they are expressed by verbal inflectional morphology in Nez Perce. This ver...

This study examined whether German regular and irregular verb inflection is processed in continuous or categorical ways. Two visual priming experiments contrasted regular (regular stem, regular suffix) with two types of irregular participle formation (regular/irregular stem, irregular suffix). We measured reaction times (RT; Experiment 1) and event-related potentials (ERPs; Experiment 2) and ma...

Multilingual corpora can be annotated with morphosyntactic tags by monolingual tools. However, each of the tools is typically bundled with a specific tagset. This variety of tagging schemes may be a problem for the user: InterCorp, a parallel corpus, currently offers on-line concordances in 22 languages, 11 of them tagged with 11 different tagsets.1 Fig. 1 illustrates the tagset variety using c...

The scope of this study was to make the translation, cultural adaptation and validation of the Fantastic Lifestyle Assessment questionnaire in a group of students in higher education in Portugal. The process of translation and validation consisted of translation, back translation, expert committee review, pre-testing and testing of the psychometric properties. The final version adapted with 30 ...

The present paper provides a report on 2. new system of an automated morphemic analysis of technical texts in Czech as a highly inflectional language, which is being 2re~oared by the linguistic tes_m of the :~cult~ of ~,~athematics and ~hysics in Pracae , within the project of man-machine cozununication without a pre-arranged data base (TIBAQ). The kind of morphemic analysis z~resented here is ...

In this paper a system for Named Entity Recognition and Classification in Croatian language is described. The system is composed of the module for sentence segmentation, inflectional lexicon of common words, inflectional lexicon of names and regular local grammars for automatic recognition of numerical and temporal expressions. After the first step (sentence segmentation), the system attaches t...

The speech of individuals with agrammatism is generally characterized by omission or substitution of grammatical morphemes, a high noun-to-verb ratio and a lack of complex sentence structures. It is generally agreed upon that agrammatic speakers show a highly selective pattern of impairment of functional categories (Arabatzi & Edwards 2000, 2002; Bastiaanse 1995; Bastiaanse & Thompson 2003; Fri...