This paper presents a wide range of statistical word alignment experiments incorporating morphosyntactic information. By means of parallel corpus transformations according to information of POS-tagging, lemmatization or stemming, we explore which linguistic information helps improve alignment error rates. For this, evaluation against a human word alignment reference is performed, aiming at an i...

A morpho-syntactic categorial modeling for Korean is introduced. Variable categories and notations for word order treatment are newly invented and notations for elliptic arguments are also suggested. Incremental parsing technique of a morpheme graph is newly developed using the proposed categorial Korean modeling. Two heuristics based on the coverage of sub-trees and the part-of-speech bigrams ...

This paper presents a system which detects and corrects morpho-syntactic errors in Dutch texts. It includes a spelling corrector and a shift-reduce parser for Augmented Context-free Grammars. The spelling corrector is based on trigram and triphone analysis. The parser is an extension of the well-known Tomita algorithm (Tomita, 1986). The parser interacts with the spelling corrector and handles ...

We developed an approach to predict the proficiency level of Estonian language learners based on the CEFR guidelines. We performed learner classification by studying morphosyntactic variation and lexical richness in texts produced by learners of Estonian as a second language. We show that our features which exploit the rich morphology of Estonian by focusing on the nominal case and verbal mood ...

The paper presents a methodological discussion on the possibilites of (micro)parametric approach to syntactic reconstruction Old and pre-literary Albanian, illustrated by formal analysis position clitics verb (morpho)syntax definiteness in 16th 17th-century Albanian texts. It is argued that, contrast Modern lacked (that is, was process gradually acquiring) overt V-movement with imperatives sent...

We present experiments with part-ofspeech tagging for Bulgarian, a Slavic language with rich inflectional and derivational morphology. Unlike most previous work, which has used a small number of grammatical categories, we work with 680 morpho-syntactic tags. We combine a large morphological lexicon with prior linguistic knowledge and guided learning from a POS-annotated corpus, achieving accura...

In this paper we investigate how readability varies between texts originally written in English and texts translated into English. For quantification, we analyze several factors that are relevant in assessing readability – shallow, lexical and morpho-syntactic features – and we employ the widely used Flesch-Kincaid formula to measure the variation of the readability level between original Engli...

Annotation of linguistic data increasingly focuses on information beyond the (morpho-)syntactic level. Moreover, annotated data of less-studied languages is growing in importance. To maximally profit from this data, straightforward and user-friendly access has to be provided. In this paper, we describe a linguistic database that is accessed via a web browser and offers flexible visualization of...

This paper studies a tuned version of an induction tree which is used for automatic detection of lexical word category. The database used to train the tree has several fields to describe Spanish words morpho-syntactically. All the processing is performed using only the information of the word and its actual sentence. It will be shown here that this kind of induction is good enough to perform th...

In this paper I shall propose an account of morphosyntactic phenomena like European Portuguese (henceforth: EP) cliticization in terms of interacting morphological and surface-syntactic constraints. In particular, I suggest that morphological constraints are partially underspecified with respect to morpheme linearization, information that will be added monotonically by surface syntactic constra...