Syntactic Processing

: The paper describes the design of a fair sized lexi- cal database that is to be used with a natural language based expert system with German as the language …...

Nominalization is a highly pro- ductive phenomena in most lan- guages. The process of nominaliza- tion ejects a verb from its syntactic role into a nominal position. The original verb …...

We report applications of language technology to analyzing historical documents in the Database for the Study of Modern Chinese Thoughts and Literature (DSMCTL). We studied two historical issues with the …...

AbstractLanguage models (LMs) trained on large quantities of text have been claimed to acquire abstract linguistic representations. Our work tests the robustness of these abstractions by focusing on the ability …...

AbstractWord identification from continuous input is typically viewed as a segmentation task. Experiments with human adults suggest that familiarity with syntactic structures in their native language also influences word identification …...