The only description of extractions in TAG we know has been developed by Kroch & Joshi (1986), Kroch (1987) and implemented in the developed grammars of English (XT AG 1995) and French (Abeille 1991, Candito 1999). This implementation sol ves the unboundedness of extractions with predicative adjoining, but the pied-piping is solved using a special feature. We think that this solution of pied-pi...

The emerging function of verb in ections in German language acquisition is modeled with a connectionist network. A network that is initially presented only with a semantic representation of sentences uses the in ectional verb ending -t to mark those sentences that are low in transitivity, whereas all other verb endings occur randomly. This behavior matches an early stage in German language acqu...

Programmers currently enjoy access to a very high number of code repositories and libraries of ever increasing size. The ensuing potential for reuse is however hampered by the fact that searching within all this code becomes an increasingly difficult task. Most code search engines are based on syntactic techniques such as signature matching or keyword extraction. However, these techniques are i...

For a long time, syntacticians and semanticists have been seeking a way to integrate semantic analysis into syntactic parsing, or inverse; because they have realized that understanding cannot be fully explained simply with syntax or semantics. Categorial Grammarians devoted a lot to extend the expressiveness of CG, but they missed a point what behinds the scene is meanings rather than grammar r...

This paper presents an algorithm for finding systematic polysemous classes in WordNet and similar semantic databases, based on a definition in (Apresjan 1973). The introduction of systematic polysemous classes can reduce the amount of lexical semantic processing, because the number of disambiguation decisions can be restricted more clearly to those cases that involve real ambiguity (homonymy). ...

The aim of the paper is to propose a new description of extraction in plain TAG. Contrary to Kroch 1987’s analysis, our description is based on the fact that the power of a relative clause to adjoin on a noun can be attached to the wh-word rather than to a verb. This analysis solves some problems of the previous analysis, notably by giving the right semantic dependency in case of pied-piping. W...

Predicting the a↵ective valence of unknown multiword expressions is key for concept-level sentiment analysis. A↵ectiveSpace 2 is a vector space model, built by means of random projection, that allows for reasoning by analogy on natural language concepts. By reducing the dimensionality of a↵ective common-sense knowledge, the model allows semantic features associated with concepts to be generaliz...