Prosody and syntax are highly related, even if the prosodic structure cannot be directly mapped to the syntactic one and vice versa. This paper presents an experiment for exploring in what degree a powerful HMM-based automatic prosodic segmentation tool can recover the syntactic structure of an utterance in speech understanding systems. Results show that the approach is capable of recalling up ...

The paper describes an experimental model of syntactic structure generation starting from the limited fragment of semantics that deals with the quantitative values of object parameters. To present the input information the basic semantic units of four types are proposed:"object", "parameter", "function" and "constant". For the syntactic structure representation the system of syntactic component...

This research tested the hypothesis that shared or related neurophysiological processes are required for treating (a) non-linguistic abstract structure and (b) some aspects of linguistic syntactic structure. In language, one syntactic structure can be used to create an open class of sentences. We have previously proposed a relation between this generative aspect of syntactic structure and the a...

In MUC-5 and MUC-6 the output of information extraction has been a multi-level object-oriented data structure. Although appropriate for an object-oriented data base, the structures frequently were not straightforwardly mappable from linguistic structures. This was one of the reasons that prior to MUC-6, semantic inferencing was added to PLUM's discourse processor. The discourse processor, when ...

The neural basis of syntax is a matter of substantial debate. In particular, the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), or Broca's area, has been prominently linked to syntactic processing, but the anterior temporal lobe has been reported to be activated instead of IFG when manipulating the presence of syntactic structure. These findings are difficult to reconcile because they rely on different laborato...

There is substantial evidence that speakers co-ordinate their contributions in dialogue. Until now, experimental studies of co-ordination have concentrated on the development of shared strategies for reference. We present an experiment that employed a novel confederate-scripting technique to investigate whether speakers also co-ordinate syntactic structure in dialogue. Pairs of speakers took it...