Part-of-speech tagging is the process of associating each word in a text with it’s part-of-speech category and possibly a set of morphosyntactic features. This information is represented by part-of-speech tags. This paper describes an implementation of a part-of-speech tagger for Swedish based on the Brill method. The basic idea is to apply a set of rules to an initial annotation achieved using...

OBJECTIVE The authors first examined the influence of moderate to severe congenital hearing impairment (CHI) on the correctness of samples of elicited spoken language. Then, the authors used this measure as an indicator of linguistic proficiency and examined its effect on performance in language reception, independent of bottom-up auditory processing. DESIGN In groups of adults with normal he...

In this paper, we argue, mainly on the basis of Japanese data, that we need a theory of focus in which a contiguous sequence of expressions that does not form a morphosyntactic constituent is allowed to serve as a single focus, rather than merely as a sequence of two or more foci, and then present such a theory within the framework of linearization-based HPSG. In the proposed theory, prosodic c...

Part-of-speech tagging or, more accurately, morphosyntactic tagging, is a procedure that assigns to each word token appearing in a text its morphosyntactic description, e.g. “masculine singular common noun in the genitive case”. Morphosyntactic tagging is an important component of many language technology applications, such as machine translation, speech synthesis, or information extraction. In...

In this article we evaluate our stochastic morphosyntactic language model (SMLM) on a Hungarian newspaper dictation task that requires modeling over 1 million different word forms. The proposed method is based on the use of morphemes as the basic recognition units and the combination of a morpheme gram model and a morphosyntactic language model. The architecture of the recognition system is bas...

On the first interpretation, identify is the morphosyntactic base of the derived word identifiable: this statement is justified by the fact that a morphosyntactic property of identify the fact that it is a verb is a prerequisite for the affixation of -able. On a second interpretation, identify is the semantic base of identifiable: the semantics of the -able form are a function of those of the v...

Abstract Universal dependencies (UD) is a framework for morphosyntactic annotation of human language, which to date has been used create treebanks more than 100 languages. In this article, we outline the linguistic theory UD framework, draws on long tradition typologically oriented grammatical theories. Grammatical relations between words are centrally explain how predicate–argument structures ...

Automatic lemmatization is a core application for many language processing tasks. In inflectionally rich languages, such as Slovene, assigning the correct lemma (base form) to each word in a running text is not trivial, since for instance, nouns inflect for number and case, with a complex configuration of endings and stem modifications. The problem is especially difficult for unknown words, sin...

In this paper, we present a morphosyntactic tagset for Afrikaans based on the guidelines developed by the Expert Advisory Group on Language Engineering Standards (EAGLES). We compare our slim yet expressive tagset, MAATS (Morphosyntactic AfrikAans TagSet), with an existing one which primarily focuses on a detailed morphosyntactic and semantic description of word forms. MAATS will primarily be u...

The purpose of this study was to assess phonological and morphosyntactic change in children with co-occurring speech and language impairments using different goal attack strategies. Participants included 47 preschoolers, ages 3;0 (years;months) to 5;11, with impairments in both speech and language: 40 children in the experimental group and 7 in a no-treatment control group. Children in the expe...