This paper describes a procedure aimed at automatic extraction of certain noun and verb categories from Polish texts. The general goal is to construct a lexical database that should be incorporated into a system for machine translation and multilingual generation of summaries. High quality processing of inflectional languages like Polish requires quite elaborated lexical entries, it is therefor...

For the treatment of agreement in Dutch NPs I adopt a distinction, familiar from HPSG, between morphosyntactic agreement and index agreement. In order to determine their respective roles, I make another distinction, proposed in Van Eynde (2003), between marked and unmarked nominals. Employing these distinctions, I will demonstrate that the combination of prenominal adjectives and determiners wi...

1 Abstract Most current theories of inflection violate basic minimalist principles by assuming the doubling of structure-building operations in the lexicon or a big variety of morphological rules and constraints (e.g. Halle and Marantz, 1993). In this paper, I propose an approach to morphological spellout which is restricted to the application of a single generalized transformation which delete...

The present study examined event-related brain potential (ERP) responses to apparent Case-assignment violations to explore how morphosyntactic and semantic processing interact with each other during Japanese sentence comprehension. Consistent with previous studies on Case-assignment violation, the present results found that a Case-assignment violation elicited a left anterior negativity (LAN), ...

In this paper we describe annotation process of clinical texts with morphosyntactic and semantic information. The corpus contains 1,300 discharge letters in Bulgarian language for patients with Endocrinology and Metabolic disorders. The annotated corpus will be used as a Gold standard for information extraction evaluation of test corpus of 6,200 discharge letters. The annotation is performed wi...

Laryngealizations are irregular voiced portions of speech, which can have morphosyntactic functions and can disturb the automatic computation of F0. Two methods for the automatic detection of laryngealizations are described in this paper: With a Gaussian classifier using spectral and cepstral features a recognition rate of 80% (false alarm rate of 8%) could be achieved. As an alternative a “non...

This paper argues for the necessity of zero pronoun annotations in Korean treebanks and provides an annotation scheme that can be used to develop a gold standard for testing different anaphor resolution algorithms. Relevant issues of pronoun annotation will be discussed by comparing the Penn Korean Treebank with zero pronoun mark-up and the newly developing Sejong Teebank without zero pronoun m...

This paper describes an ongoing Portuguese Language grammar checker project, called CoGrOO1-Corretor Gramatical para OpenOffice (Grammar Checker for OpenOffice), based on CETENFOLHA, a Brazilian Portuguese morphosyntactic annotated Corpus. Two of its features are highlighted: hybrid architecture, mixing rules and statistics; free software project. This project aims at checking grammatical error...

The aim of this paper is to discuss difficulties involved in adopting an existing system of semantic roles in a grammar engineering task. Two typical repertoires of semantic roles are considered, namely, VerbNet and Sowa’s system. We report on experiments showing the low inter-annotator agreement when using such systems and suggest that, at least in case of languages with rich morphosyntax, an ...