Being able to predict the placement of contrastive accent is essential for the assignment of correct accentuation patterns in spoken language generation. I discuss two approaches ...
We demonstrate the effectiveness of multilingual learning for unsupervised part-of-speech tagging. The key hypothesis of multilingual learning is that by combining cues from multi...
Benjamin Snyder, Tahira Naseem, Jacob Eisenstein, ...
Chomsky’s theory of syntax came after criticism of probabilistic associative models of word order in sentences. Immediate constituent structures are plausible but their descripti...
In this paper we discuss noun compounding, a highly generative, productive process, in three distinct languages: Czech, English and Zulu. Derivational morphology presents a large ...
Understanding the ways in which information achieves widespread public awareness is a research question of significant interest. We consider whether, and how, the way in which th...