This paper describes how coordination has been integrated into a broad coverage statistical Minimalist Grammar parser currently under development, and presents a unified analysis for a number of coordinate (and related) constructions sometimes considered problematic for transfor-mational syntax; these include across-the-board (ATB) head and phrasal movements, argument cluster coordination, righ...

Glottal marking of vowel-initial German words by glottalization and glottal stop insertion were investigated in dependence on speech rate, word type (content vs. function words), word accent, phrasal position and the following vowel. The analysed material consisted of speeches of Konrad Adenauer, Thomas Mann and Richard von Weizsäcker. The investigation shows that not only the left boundary of ...

In the Gender and Work project (GaW), historians are building a database with information on what men and women did for a living in the Early Modern Swedish society, i.e. approximately 1550–1800 [1]. This information is currently extracted by researchers manually going through large volumes of court records and church documents, searching for relevant text passages describing working activities...

Hiero translation models have two limitations compared to phrase-based models: 1) Limited hypothesis space; 2) No lexicalized reordering model. We propose an extension of Hiero called PhrasalHiero to address Hiero’s second problem. Phrasal-Hiero still has the same hypothesis space as the original Hiero but incorporates a phrase-based distance cost feature and lexicalized reodering features into...

This study explored the effects of prosodic boundaries on the comprehension of temporarily and globally ambiguous sentences in Korean. Previous work on English, Japanese, and Korean has demonstrated that prosodic structures can carry critical information about the meaning and/or syntactic structures of spoken sentences (Kjelgaard and Speer 1999; Jun and Oh 1996; Misono et al. 1997; Venditti 199...

NTCIR-2 evaluation experiments at the Justsystem site are described with a focus on comparative study of CLIR effectiveness with monolingual retrieval effectiveness of the same retrieval engine. Experiments on the effects of phrasal translation, indexing of translated phrasal terms, pre-translation feedback and parallel documents feedback in diverse retrieval settings, are reported. The results...

This paper complements a series of works on implicative verbs such as manage to and fail to. It extends the description of simple implicative verbs to phrasal implicatives as take the time to and waste the chance to. It shows that the implicative signatures of verb-noun collocations depend both on the semantic type of the verb and the semantic type of the noun in a systematic way.

Reduplication has played a central role in the development of phonological theories for 30years. The introduction of Classical Optimality Theory (OT) in the 1990s sparked intensive research into the typology and analysis of reduplicative patterns, as reduplication was a key testing area both for OT and for theories critical of OT. Now, after some 20years of research within the OT model, it is a...

Automatic paraphrasing is a transformation of expressions into semantically equivalent expressions within one language. For generating a wider variety of phrasal paraphrases in Japanese, it is necessary to paraphrase functional expressions as well as content expressions. We propose a method of paraphrasing of Japanese functional expressions using a dictionary with two hierarchies: a morphologic...