In this paper we present a mechanism for the automatic acquisition of rules from syntactic anotated corpora. This aproach is based on an extension of the Claire Cardie and David Pierce algorithm (Cardie y Pierce, 1998). The improvement of the model using lexicalization techniques (Molina, 2004) is shown.

Paul M. Pietroski (University of Maryland) Thinking requires concepts. Talking requires words. We humans have thoughts that are composed of concepts, which we can express with words that can be combined to form sentences, which we can use to express thoughts. I take this as given. But how are human concepts related to the words that children naturally acquire? Do words compose in the same way, ...

language is a system of verbal elements that makes communication of meaningspossible in the manners the users intend by employing certain linguistic deviceswhich are partly language-specific. once communicating cross-linguistically, thereis always a risk of negative transfer of techniques or processes from the firstlanguage (l1) to the foreign language (l2). the current study investigates the“e...

This paper offers a definition of language iconicity. And it studies it from a fresh perspective--sociolinguistics. The paper discusses it from the following five sections: social class corresponds to language diversity; traditional concept corresponds to word order iconicity and syntactic iconicity; intimity or estrangement corresponds to lexicalization; regional varieties correspond to differ...

This article identifies a semantically motivated typology of lexicalization paths to account for the formation of nominal compounds from complex noun phrases. The typology includes coordination, semantic roles and possession, which, systematically, seems to be the origin of various subclasses of appositional, copulative and endocentric compounds, and the typology has serious implications for li...

We investigate the question whether an explicit feature representation for morphological features is necessary when parsing German with a fully lexicalized, statistical dependency parser. We use two morphosyntactic phenomena of German to show that while lexicalization does indeed suffice to a large extent when recovering the internal structure of noun phrases, an accurate explicit representatio...

Marco Kuhlmann, Alexander Koller and Giorgio Satta, Lexicalization and Generative Power in CCG, 2015, Computational linguistics Association for Computational Linguistics (Print), (41), 2, 215-247. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/COLI_a_00219 Copyright: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press): STM Titles / MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/main/home/default.asp?sid=19E29805-C0A0-4642-8...