This paper describes a new kind of language bias, S-structural indeterminate clauses, which takes into account the meaning of predicates that play a key role in the complexity of learning in structural domains. Structurally indeterminate clauses capture an important background knowledge in structural domains such as medicine, chemistry or computational linguistics: the specificity of the compon...

While there has been considerable research on both structural annotation (such as the Penn Treebank (Taylor et al., 2003) or the Kyoto Corpus (Kurohashi and Nagao, 2003)) and semantic annotation (e.g. Senseval: Kilgariff and Rosenzweig, 2000; Shirai, 2002), there are almost no corpora that combine both. This makes it difficult to carry out research on the interaction between syntax and semantic...

Structural Computing grew from the trend in hypertext research towards generalised systems, it asserts the primacy of structure over data. As a philosophy it has been compared to Structuralism in anthropology and linguistics and has given birth to a new trend in systems design known as Multiple Open Services (MOS). The Fundamental Open Hypermedia Model (FOHM) is an alternative approach to Gener...

In this paper I develop an analysis of the alternation between verb-third (V3) and verb-second (V2) in the older West Germanic languages in terms of information-structural considerations. I present the situation in Old English and Old High German as well as new data from Old Saxon, proposing on the basis of this data that there were (at least) two possible left-peripheral targets for verb-movem...

The explosion of information technology has led to a substantial growth in quantity, diversity and complexity of linguistic data accessible over the internet. The lack of interoperability between linguistic and language resources represents a major challenge that needs to be addressed, in particular, if information from different sources is to be combined, like, say, machine-readable lexicons, ...

This thesis surveys the interaction between non-verbal predication in matrix clauses and processes of head-movement. Focusing mainly on the syntax of Modern Irish nominal predicates, it is claimed that matrix non-verbal predication can occur without any verbal support. When this happens, non-verbal predicates bear inflectional features directly and behave just like verbs with respect to process...

Consistency of corpus annotation is an essential property for the many uses of annotated corpora in computational and theoretical linguistics. While some research addresses the detection of inconsistencies in positional annotation (e.g., partof-speech) and continuous structural annotation (e.g., syntactic constituency), no approach has yet been developed for automatically detecting annotation e...

What counts as evidence in linguistics? In our discipline this is a perennial issue, a question to which different schools and generations of linguists have given varying responses. Inductive procedures, the analysis of language samples known as corpora, have been one strong option since Bloomfield's structuralism and have gained increasing momentum in recent years. Technological advances have ...