In the formally syntax-based MT, a hierarchical tree generated by synchronous CFG rules associates the source sentence with the target sentence. In this paper, we propose a source dependency model to estimate the probability of the hierarchical tree generated in decoding. We develop this source dependency model from word-aligned corpus, without using any linguistically motivated parsing. Our ex...

Semantic role labeling (SRL) aims at elaborating the meaning of a sentence by forming predicate-argument structure. Recent researches depicted that effective use syntax can improve SRL performance. However, is complicated linguistic clue and hard to be effectively applied in downstream task like SRL. This work encodes using adaptive convolution which endows strong flexibility existing convoluti...

I describe an analysis of the syntax of identifier names found in a corpus of over 500 ontologies. The analysis was performed in five steps: (i) extraction of identifier names from the corpus; (ii) construction of dummy sentences containing the identifiers; (iii) part-of-speech (POS) tagging; (iv) extraction of POS tag strings; (v) POS string frequency analysis; and (vi) general syntactic patte...

This paper presents an account of English non-restrictive (‘appositive’) relative clauses (NRCs) in the framework of ‘construction based’ HPSG. Specifically, it shows how the account of restrictive relative clause constructions presented in Sag (1997) can be extended to provide an account of the syntax and semantics of NRCs and of the main differences between NRCs and restrictive relatives. The...

We present a constituent parsing-based reordering technique that improves the performance of the state-of-the-art English-to-Japanese phrase translation system that includes distortion models by 4.76 BLEU points. The phrase translation model with reordering applied at the pre-processing stage outperforms a syntax-based translation system that incorporates a phrase translation model, a hierarchi...

The CORAS method for security risk analysis provides a customized language, the CORAS diagrams, for threat and risk modelling. In this paper, we extend this language to capture context dependencies, and use it as a means to analyse mutual dependency. We refer to the extension as dependent CORAS diagrams. We de ne a textual syntax using EBNF and explain how a dependent CORAS diagram may be schem...

In this paper we address the problem of translating between languages with word order disparity. The idea of augmenting statistical machine translation (SMT) by using a syntax-based reordering step prior to translation, proposed in recent years, has been quite successful in improving translation quality. We present a new technique for extracting syntax-based reordering rules, which are derived ...

We model the problem of disfluency detection using a transition-based framework, which incrementally constructs and labels the disfluency chunk of input sentences using a set of transition actions without syntax information. Compared with sequence labeling methods, it can capture non-local chunk-level features; compared with joint parsing and disfluency detection methods, it is free for noise i...

The extent to which familiar syntax supports short-term serial recall of visually presented six-item sequences was shown by the superior recall of lists in which item pairs appeared in the order of "adjective-noun" (items 1-2, 3-4, 5-6)--congruent with English syntax--compared to when the order of items within pairs was reversed. The findings complement other evidence suggesting that short-term...

A sample of elementary school- and high school-age deaf students in special education programs in the Australian state of Queensland using Australasian Signed English (ASE) took the Test of Syntactic Abilities (Quigley, Steinkamp, Power, & Jones, 1978) and wrote a story in response to a wordless picture sequence. Several analyses of the students' test scores and of the written language of their...