Because meaningful sentences are composed of meaningful words, any system that hopes to process natural languages as people do must have information about words and their meanings. This information is traditionally provided through dictionaries, and machine-readable dictionaries are now widely

assumptions now standard within the Government-Binding (GB) framework. The central empirical problem addressed is the question of the proper analysis of the so-called "Poss-ing" gerund in English. This construction possesses simultaneously many properties of sentences, and many properties of noun

There is a growing consensus that significant, rapid progress can be made in both text understanding and spoken language understanding by investigating those phenomena that occur most centrally in naturally occurring unconstrained materials and by attempting to automatically extract information

, showing that error rates will depend on the corpus considered; however, both were small enough to hope that the method will be useful for many language pairs. To further research on bilingual corpora, a much larger sample of Canadian Hansards (approximately 90 million words, half in English and and half

We define a new formal grammatical system called a link grammar . A sequence of words is in the language of a link grammar if there is a way to draw links between words in such a way that (1) the local requirements of each word are satisfied, (2) the links do not cross, and (3) the words form a

from source to target language can be learned explicitly. The model is described using a log-linear modeling approach, which is a generalization of the often used source–channel approach. Thereby, the model is easier to extend than classical statistical machine translation systems. We describe

Does knowledge of language consist of mentally-represented rules? Rumelhart and McClelland have described a connectionist (parallel distributed processing) model of the acquisition of the past tense in English which successfully maps many stems onto their past tense forms, both regular (walk

Overt or covert reference to the edges of constituents is a commonplace throughout phonology and morphology. Some examples include: •In English, Garawa, Indonesian and a number of other languages, the normal right-to-left

We describe a parsing system based upon a language model for English that is, in turn, based upon assigning probabilities to possible parses for a sentence. This model is used in a parsing system by finding the parse for the sentence with the highest probability. This system outperforms

betweenphrasesandawordlevelalignment between single words. Wepresentresultsus-ingtheVerbmobiltask (German-English, 6000-word vocabulary) whichisalimited-domain spoken-language task. Theexperimentaltests wereperformedonboththetext transcription and thespeechrecognizeroutput.