Undergeneration is a problem that undermines successful parsing of unrestricted texts. A popular solution to this problem is automatic grammar correction (or machine learning of grammar). Broadly speaking, grammar correction approaches can be classiied as being either data-driven, or model-based. Data-driven learners use data-intensive methods to acquire grammar. They typically use grammar form...

1 Pān. ini’s grammar Pān. ini’s grammar (ca. 500 B.C.) seeks to provide a complete, maximally concise, and theoretically consistent analysis of Sanskrit grammatical structure. It is the foundation of all traditional and modern analyses of Sanskrit, as well as having great historical and theoretical interest in its own right. Western grammatical theory has been influenced by it at every stage of...

Previous approaches of analyzing spontaneously spoken language often have been based on encoding syntactic and semantic knowledge manually and symbolically. While there has been some progress using statistical or connectionist language models, many current spoken-language systems still use a relatively brittle, hand-coded symbolic grammar or symbolic semantic component. In contrast, we describe...

Recognition of spoken names is a challenging task for speech recognition systems because of the large variations in speaking styles, linguistic origins and pronunciation found in names. The complex linguistic nature of names makes it difficult to automatically generate pronunciation variations. For many applications the list of names tends to be in the order of several hundred thousands, making...

In considering the question of how the human capacity to learn and use grammar could have evolved, a great deal depends on the characterization of the nature of grammar. In recent years the debate has been dominated by those who believe that grammar consists of rigid, categorical rules and structures of such a remove from the spoken language that children could not learn them from the input ava...

This study focuses on the description of argument structure and word order in Saudi Sign language (SSL). The nature syntactic level grammar SSL is clarified. Since often considered most important part grammar, this details various options that are available for major constituents (Subject, Verb, Object) independent any connection to spoken Arabic syntax. In SSL, like other languages, arguments ...

Genre studies have its reach in almost all of the written materials available either through printed copies or online publication. Studies genre provided a glimpse structure and order which spoken text are constructed. The importance analysis lens cannot be understated. study aimed at investigating textual features that identify restaurant menus as genre. From moves/steps lexico-grammar, five m...

The gene FOXP2 was discovered to be mutated in members of a family possessing a severe language disorder. Originally some researchers believed that this gene was responsible for grammar and called it the “language gene”. After further study of the family, researchers determined that the gene itself was not generally responsible for grammar but that it may be responsible for the development of s...