In order to minimize the cost associated with “bridging the technology gaps” between the networks, ORCHESTRA proposes an abstract architecture and a methodology for mapping this abstract architecture onto the technical platform of choice. At the level of information exchange, ORCHESTRA demands self-description of all services and data offered in a network. In particular: “all meta-information M...

In this paper, we tackle Natural Language (NL) command interpretation for artificial agents. Our architecture relies on a logical modeling of the user’s command to enhance the semantic interpretation. This allows us to catch the relations between terms in the user sentence. We present our approach based on a surface syntactic analysis. We first define our surface analysis algorithm, based on th...

This study examines second language (L2) syntactic development in conjunction with the effects such development has on human judgments of writing quality (i.e., judgments of both overall writing proficiency and more fine-grained judgments of syntactic proficiency). Essays collected from 57 L2 learners in a longitudinal study were analyzed for growth and scoring patterns using syntactic complexi...

A number of recent studies have investigated how syntactic and non-syntactic constraints combine to cue memory retrieval during anaphora resolution. In this paper we investigate how syntactic constraints and gender congruence interact to guide memory retrieval during the resolution of subject pronouns. Subject pronouns are always technically ambiguous, and the application of syntactic constrain...

This study examined whether phrasal prosody can impact toddlers' syntactic analysis. French noun-verb homophones were used to create locally ambiguous test sentences (e.g., using the homophone as a noun: [le bébésouris] [a bien mangé] - [the baby mouse] [ate well] or using it as a verb: [le bébé] [sourità sa maman] - [the baby] [smiles to his mother], where brackets indicate prosodic phrase bou...

Models of human sentence processing have paid much attention to three key characteristics of the sentence processor: Its robust and accurate processing of unseen input (wide coverage), its immediate, incremental interpretation of partial input and its sensitivity to structural frequencies in previous language experience. In this thesis, we propose a model of human sentence processing that accou...

The analysis and interpretation of time constituents is a rather complex enterprise, since diverse time constituents are distributable in variable positions within an utterance. The first step in order to manage this complexity and variability is the syntactic analysis at phrase structure level. Within a utterance each time constituent is analyzed independently and tested for its syntactic cohe...

The analysis of nominal compound constructions has proven to be a recalcitrant problem for linguistic semantics and poses serious challenges for natural language processing systems. We argue for a compositional treatment of compound constructions which limits the need for listing of compounds in the lexicon. We argue that the development of a practical model of compound interpretation crucially...

Interpretation of semantic propositions in free-text documents such as MEDLINE citations would provide valuable support for biomedical applications, and several approaches to semantic interpretation are being pursued in the biomedical informatics community. In this paper, we describe a methodology for interpreting linguistic structures that encode hypernymic propositions, in which a more specif...

The main impulse for this study was the difficulty of representing ale nie construction in a currently created syntactic corpus. One two variants involves an unusual interaction with genitive negation. In article, we discuss proposed representations such structures and notice their advantages disadvantages. We also consider features that distinguish interpretation variants, which can aid manual...