This article deals with noun+verb combinations in bilingual Basque-Spanish and Spanish-Basque dictionaries. We take a look at morphosyntactic and semantic features of word combinations in both language directions, and compare them to identify di↵erences and similarities. Our work reveals the high complexity of those constructions and, hence, the need to address them specifically in Natural Lang...

Arabic verbs exhibit a morphologically conditioned stem ablaut which has been attributed in the past to an apophonic scale (Guerssel and Lowenstamm 1996; Ségéral 1997). I show here that this apophonic scale is unnecessary, and that Arabic ablaut can be attributed instead to maximized contrast along the dimension of morphosyntactic aspect, employing constraints motivated by Rebrus and Törkenczy ...

Animacy is a an inherent property of the referents of nouns which has been claimed to figure as an influencing factor in a range of different grammatical phenomena in various languages. In recent years several linguistic studies have examined the influence of argument animacy in grammatical phenomena such as differential object marking (Aissen, 2003), the passive construction (Dingare, 2001), t...

Optimality Theory (OT), introduced by Prince and Smolensky (Prince & Smolensky 2004) as a grammar model in generative phonology, has recently gained popularity in other domains of linguistic research as well, but work on pure morphology is still infrequent and there is no agreed upon framework for representing realisations of morphosyntactic features via rules in the vein of Matthews (1991) and...

A widespread assumption about the analysis of inflection features is that this task is to be performed by a tagger with an extended tagset. This typically leads to a POS precision drop due to the data-sparseness problem. In this paper we tackle this problem by addressing inflection tagging as a dedicated task, separated from that of POS tagging. More specifically, this paper describes and evalu...

A drug-drug interaction (DDI) occurs when one drug affects the level or activity of another drug. Semeval 2013 DDI Extraction challenge is going to be held with the aim of identifying the state of the art relation extraction algorithms. In this paper we firstly review some of the existing approaches in relation extraction generally and biomedical relations especially. And secondly we will expla...

Data sparseness is one of the factors that degrade statistical machine translation (SMT). Existing work has shown that using morphosyntactic information is an effective solution to data sparseness. However, fewer efforts have been made for Chinese-to-English SMT with using English morpho-syntactic analysis. We found that while English is a language with less inflection, using English lemmas in ...

We present a system for morphological reinflection based on the LSTM model. Given an input word and morphosyntactic descriptions, the problem is to classify the proper edit tree that, applied on the input word, produces the target form. The proposed method does not require human defined features and it is language independent also. Currently, we evaluate our system only for task 1 without using...

This paper presents the adaptation of the Stanford coreference resolution system to Basque, an agglutinative head-final pro-drop language. The adapted system has been integrated into a global linguistic analysis pipeline so that the input of the system are original Basque raw texts linguistically processed, and annotated. We demonstrate that language-specific characteristics have a noteworthy e...

We present DIALEX, an inheritance-based tool that facilitates the rapid construction of linguistic knowledge bases. Simple lexical entries are added to an application-specific DATR lexicon that inherits morphosyntactic, syntactic, and lexico-semantic constraints from an applicationindependent set of structured base definitions. A lexicon generator expands the DATR lexicon out into a disjunctive...