Syntactic dependencies are head/modifier relations between words in a sentence that organize sentences into a syntactic tree structure. The general principle that languages have a preference to group syntactically related words close together can be made precise as a preference for shorter dependencies. We examine evidence for this principle in the development of languages’ grammars as well as ...

Recurrence analysis is introduced as a means to investigate syntactic coordination between child and caregiver. Three CHILDES (MacWhinney, 2000) corpora are analyzed and demonstrate coordination between children and their caregivers in terms of word-class n-gram sequences. Results further indicate that trade-offs in leading or following this coordination reflect individual differences between c...

The number of publicly available Web services (WS) is continuously growing, and in parallel, we are witnessing a rapid development in semanticrelated web technologies. The intersection of the semantic web and WS allows the development of semantic WS. In this work, we adopt a complex network perspective to perform a comparative analysis of the syntactic and semantic approaches used to describe W...

A number of different measures have been proposed for evaluating computational models of human syntactic category acquisition. They all rely on a gold standard set of manually determined categories. However, children’s syntactic categories change during language development, so evaluating against a fixed and final set of adult categories is not appropriate. In this paper, we propose a new measu...

In this paper we present an automatic system for the extraction of syntactic semantic patterns applied to the development of multilingual processing tools. In order to achieve optimum methods for the automatic treatment of more than one language, we propose the use of syntactic semantic patterns. These patterns are formed by a verbal head and the main arguments, and they are aligned among langu...

Natural Language Processing systems are large-scale softwares, whose development involves many man-years of work, in terms of both coding and resource development. Given a dictionary of 110k lemmas, a few hundred syntactic analysis rules, 20k ngrams matrices and other resources, what will be the impact on a syntactic analyzer of adding a new possible category to a given verb? What will be the c...

Comprehension of relative clauses was assessed in 10 Hebrew-speaking school-age children with syntactic SLI and in two groups of younger children with normal language development. Comprehension of subject- and object-relatives was assessed using a binary sentence-picture matching task. The findings were that while Hebrew-speaking children with normal development comprehend right-branching objec...

Finding models of logical formulas is a challenging problem. For first-order formulas, a finite model can be found by exhaustive search. For many structured problem instances, there is much isomorphism in the search space. This paper proposes general-purpose techniques for eliminating isomorphic subspaces, which can be helpful when the formulas have many predicates. The techniques are based on ...

This paper proposes a method for automatically acquiring strongly-related events from a large corpus using predicateargument co-occurring statistics and case frames. The strongly-related events are acquired in the form of strongly-related two predicates with their relevant arguments. First, strongly-related events are acquired from predicate-argument cooccurring statistics. Then, the remaining ...

We define a new invariant for shift equivalence of sofic shifts. This invariant, that we call the syntactic graph of a sofic shift, is the directed acyclic graph of characteristic groups of the non null regular D-classes of the syntactic semigroup of the shift.