Abstract—Natural language understanding involves the simultaneous consideration of a large number of different sources of information. Traditional methods employed in language an...
In this paper, we present a logic-based computational model for movement theory in Government and Binding Theory. For that purpose, we have designed a language called DISLOG. DISL...
Hierarchical HMM (HHMM) parsers make promising cognitive models: while they use a bounded model of working memory and pursue incremental hypotheses in parallel, they still achieve...
Stephen Wu, Asaf Bachrach, Carlos Cardenas, Willia...
We explore the near-synonym lexical choice problem using a novel representation of near-synonyms and their contexts in the latent semantic space. In contrast to traditional latent...
Historical linguistics aims at inferring the most likely language phylogenetic tree starting from information concerning the evolutionary relatedness of languages. The available i...