This article provides description about the grammar checking system developed for detecting various grammatical errors in Punjabi texts. This system utilizes a fullform lexicon for morphological analysis, and applies rule-based approaches for part-of-speech tagging and phrase chunking. The system follows a novel approach of performing agreement checks at phrase and clause levels using the gramm...

Nativist and constructivist accounts differ in their characterization of children's knowledge of grammatical categories. In this paper we present research on the process of acquisition of a particular grammatical system, gender agreement in the Spanish noun phrase, in children under three years of age. The design of the longitudinal study employed presents some variations in relation to classic...

In the paper we present a progress report on a long-term ongoing project concerning the lexicon-grammar of Polish. It is based on our former research focused mainly on morphological dictionaries, text understanding and related tools. By Lexicon Grammars we mean grammatical formalisms which are based on the idea that a sentence is the fundamental unit of meaning and that grammatical information ...

The assessment of complex aspects of children's syntactic development can be carried out in a dialect-neutral fashion. The item types proposed for this purpose encompass wh-questions, passives, and articles, and test the child's understanding of implicit grammatical relations, the rules governing syntactic movement, and discourse linking. We present the rationale for the items and the specific ...

In recent years, natural language generation research has begun to mature rapidly. It has witnessed both the appearance of sophisticated oo-the-shelf surface realizations systems and the development in the knowledge representation community of knowledge bases in a variety of domains. However, knowledge bases typically employ a logic formalism while the state-of-the-art surface realizer, Fuf, em...

Sharing portions of grammars across languages greatly reduces the costs of nutltilingual grammar engineering. Related languages share a ntuch wider range of linguistic itff'ornuttio;t than typically assunwd in stamlard mttltilingttal gramtmtr atwhitectures. Taking grammatical relatedness seriously, we are particularly interested in designing lhtguistically motivated grammatical resottrces Jbr S...

In the past 30 years there has been a growing body of research using different methods (behavioural, electrophysiological, neuropsychological, TMS and imaging studies) asking whether processing words from different grammatical classes (especially nouns and verbs) engage different neural systems. To date, however, each line of investigation has provided conflicting results. Here we present a rev...

This study examines 16-month-olds’ understanding of word order and inflectional properties of familiar nouns and verbs. Infants preferred grammatical sentences over ungrammatical sentences when the ungrammaticality was cued by both misplaced inflection and word order reversal of nouns and verbs. Infants were also sensitive to inflection alone as a cue to grammaticality, but not word order alone...

We have recently made significant changes to the BBN DELPHI syntactic and semantic analysis component. These goal of these changes was to maintain the fight coupling between syntax and semantics characteristic of earlier versions of DELPHI, while making it possible for the system to provide useful semantic interpretations of input for which complete syntactic analysis is impossible. Semantic in...

1. Introduction Grammatical categories (e.g., noun, verb, and etc) are the building blocks of grammar, as grammars organize abstract linguistic categories rather than individual lexical items. Learning the categories of words is, thus, fundamental to the acquisition of language. Even theories in which learners are endowed with considerable innate linguistic knowledge allow that children need in...