Many of the errors produced by up-to-date POS-taggers could be considered as morphologic, syntactic or semantic. Once statistical tagging does not deal with semantic ambiguity, the correction of (morpho)syntactic errors emerges as one of the possibilities to improve the accuracy of this task. This work describes a method that applies a robust parser with correction rules over a POS-tagging outp...

Imagine a language that is completely unfamiliar; the only means of studying it are an ordinary grammar book and a very large corpus of text. No dictionary is available. How can easily recognized, surface grammatical facts be used to extract from a corpus as much syntactic information as possible about individual words? This paper describes an approach based on two principles. First, rely on lo...

In this paper, we describe a rule-based mechanism that detects Japanese term variations from textual corpora. The system operates on the basis of meta-rules that map syntactic and morpho-syntactic variations of terms to the original forms of terms. The framework used here has been successfully applied in such languages as English and French, and we show here that this also works well in detecti...

In this paper we present a Neural Network (NN) architecture for detecting grammatical errors in Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) using monolingual morpho-syntactic word representations in combination with surface and syntactic context windows. We test our approach on two language pairs and two tasks, namely detecting grammatical errors and predicting overall post-editing effort. Our result...

Chapters 4 and 5 provided experimental data on sensitivity to agreement violations in children with developmental dyslexia. This chapter studies processing of agreement violations and phrase-structure violations in adults with developmental dyslexia. The method of testing is different from that used in the previous chapters. Rather than focussing on the overt linguistic behaviour, the reactions...

For the analysis of the noun phrase, the treatment which currently prevails in generative grammar is the one in which the head of the noun phrase is identified with the determiner, rather than with the noun. This D(et)P treatment has the advantage of providing a uniform account of all syntactic categories, both the substantive and the functional ones, and it provides a natural way to capture th...

The Nominal Mapping Parameter (Chierchia 1998) has been proposed as a semantic parameter to account for the cross-linguistic distribution of bare nominals. We examine specific predictions that the NMP makes with respect to the bare singular arguments and bare singular predicates. Brazilian Portuguese allows bare singulars in argument position while English and other Romance languages doe not. F...

A long-time generative tradition treats the functional domains of verb and noun as a result motion affixing; however, assuming close correspondence between order in syntax morphology, Mirror Principle proposed by Baker seems to be too strong hypothesis empirically unsustainable. Distributed Morphology (DM) incorporates this idea translating it into rules manipulating syntactic nodes. The morpho...

The Holy Quran, as an Arabic masterpiece, comprises great domains of syntactical, phonological, and semantic literary patterns. These patterns work as the shackle of translators. This study examined the application of the most common shift strategies in Catford‟s linguistic model for translation of topicalization in chapter 29 of the Holy Quran. The topicalized cases were compared to their coun...

Th is chapter explores the hypothesis that diminutive usage in child-directed speech may provide multiple benefi ts for language acquisition. We summarize a series of experiments that exposed naïve English-speaking adults to Dutch or Russian diminutives, and tested their ability to isolate words in fl uent speech or acquire gender categories. Across studies, adults benefi ted from exposure to d...