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Claire Cardie - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • AAAI - Learning to disambiguate Relative Pronouns
    1992
    Co-Authors: Claire Cardie
    Abstract:

    In this paper we show how a natural language system can learn to find the antecedents of Relative Pronouns. We use a well-known conceptual clustering system to create a case-based memory that predicts the antecedent of a wh-word given a description of the clause that precedes it. Our automated approach duplicates the performance of hand-coded rules. In addition, it requires only minimal syntactic parsing capabilities and a very general semantic feature set for describing nouns. Human intervention is needed only during the training phase. Thus, it is possible to compile Relative Pronoun disambiguation heuristics tuned to the syntactic and semantic preferences of a new domain with Relative ease. Moreover, we believe that the technique provides a general approach for the automated acquisition of additional disambiguation heuristics for natural language systems, especially for problems that require the assimilation of syntactic and semantic knowledge.

  • corpus based acquisition of Relative Pronoun disambiguation heuristics
    Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 1992
    Co-Authors: Claire Cardie
    Abstract:

    This paper presents a corpus-based approach for deriving heuristics to locate the antecedents of Relative Pronouns. The technique duplicates the performance of hand-coded rules and requires human intervention only during the training phase. Because the training instances are built on parser output rather than word cooccurrences, the technique requires a small number of training examples and can be used on small to medium-sized corpora. Our initial results suggest that the approach may provide a general method for the automated acquisition of a variety of disambiguation heuristics for natural language systems, especially for problems that require the assimilation of syntactic and semantic knowledge.

  • ACL - CORPUS-BASED ACQUISITION OF Relative Pronoun DISAMBIGUATION HEURISTICS
    Proceedings of the 30th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics -, 1992
    Co-Authors: Claire Cardie
    Abstract:

    This paper presents a corpus-based approach for deriving heuristics to locate the antecedents of Relative Pronouns. The technique duplicates the performance of hand-coded rules and requires human intervention only during the training phase. Because the training instances are built on parser output rather than word cooccurrences, the technique requires a small number of training examples and can be used on small to medium-sized corpora. Our initial results suggest that the approach may provide a general method for the automated acquisition of a variety of disambiguation heuristics for natural language systems, especially for problems that require the assimilation of syntactic and semantic knowledge.

Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Intervention effects in Relative Pronoun pied-piping: experimental evidence
    2016
    Co-Authors: Hadas Kotek, Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine
    Abstract:

    This paper contributes experimental  evidence regarding the question of how Relative Pronouns are interpreted  in English non-restrictive  Relative clauses with Relative Pronoun pied-piping (RPPP). Kotek and Erlewine  (2015) and Erlewine  and Kotek (to appear b) claim that the wh-Relative Pronoun is sensitive to intervention effects inside its pied-piping constituent (cf Sauerland and Heck 2003, Cable 2010, Kotek and Erlewine to appear). In this paper we present the results of a web-based grammaticality judgment survey which supports this claim. We discuss the nature of the intervention judgment, which is notoriously subtle, and how it might be modeled in grammar. The sensitivity of RPPP to intervention effects has important implications for the formal analysis of English non-restrictive  Relative clauses, supporting the view that Relative Pronouns are interpreted in-situ without covert movement out of its pied-piping.

  • The structure and interpretation of non-restrictive Relatives: Evidence from Relative Pronoun pied-piping
    2016
    Co-Authors: Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine, Hadas Kotek
    Abstract:

    In this paper, we investigate the structure and interpretation of English nonrestrictive Relative clauses, also often called appositive Relatives and sometimes supplemental Relatives. We propose that in non-restrictive Relatives, Relative Pronouns are interpreted in-situ within the pied-piped constituent at LF, using RoothHamblin alternative computation (Hamblin, 1973; Rooth, 1985, 1992, a.o.). Evidence comes from the presence of intervention effects in RPPP; intervention effects (Beck, 2006; Sauerland & Heck, 2003, a.o.) can be used to diagnose regions of alternative computation (see Kotek & Erlewine, to appear; Erlewine & Kotek, 2014). The proposal here has the consequence that non-restrictive Relatives are fundamentally proposition-denoting (Del Gobbo, 2007) in contrast to restrictive Relatives which are property-denoting. Our proposal helps explain two differences between restrictive and non-restrictive RCs in English. First, non-restrictive Relatives must use Relative Pronouns whereas restrictive Relatives also have a that/; complementizer option. The Relative Pronoun strategy must be used in non-restrictive Relatives to arrive at the propositional denotation. Second, RPPP in non-restrictive Relatives can be substantially larger than in restrictive Relatives. This is due to the semantics of Rooth-Hamblin alternative computation, used to interpret Relative Pronouns in non-restrictive Relatives, which is insensitive to syntactic barriers such as islands, although it is susceptible to intervention effects.

Hadas Kotek - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Intervention effects in Relative Pronoun pied-piping: experimental evidence
    2016
    Co-Authors: Hadas Kotek, Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine
    Abstract:

    This paper contributes experimental  evidence regarding the question of how Relative Pronouns are interpreted  in English non-restrictive  Relative clauses with Relative Pronoun pied-piping (RPPP). Kotek and Erlewine  (2015) and Erlewine  and Kotek (to appear b) claim that the wh-Relative Pronoun is sensitive to intervention effects inside its pied-piping constituent (cf Sauerland and Heck 2003, Cable 2010, Kotek and Erlewine to appear). In this paper we present the results of a web-based grammaticality judgment survey which supports this claim. We discuss the nature of the intervention judgment, which is notoriously subtle, and how it might be modeled in grammar. The sensitivity of RPPP to intervention effects has important implications for the formal analysis of English non-restrictive  Relative clauses, supporting the view that Relative Pronouns are interpreted in-situ without covert movement out of its pied-piping.

  • The structure and interpretation of non-restrictive Relatives: Evidence from Relative Pronoun pied-piping
    2016
    Co-Authors: Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine, Hadas Kotek
    Abstract:

    In this paper, we investigate the structure and interpretation of English nonrestrictive Relative clauses, also often called appositive Relatives and sometimes supplemental Relatives. We propose that in non-restrictive Relatives, Relative Pronouns are interpreted in-situ within the pied-piped constituent at LF, using RoothHamblin alternative computation (Hamblin, 1973; Rooth, 1985, 1992, a.o.). Evidence comes from the presence of intervention effects in RPPP; intervention effects (Beck, 2006; Sauerland & Heck, 2003, a.o.) can be used to diagnose regions of alternative computation (see Kotek & Erlewine, to appear; Erlewine & Kotek, 2014). The proposal here has the consequence that non-restrictive Relatives are fundamentally proposition-denoting (Del Gobbo, 2007) in contrast to restrictive Relatives which are property-denoting. Our proposal helps explain two differences between restrictive and non-restrictive RCs in English. First, non-restrictive Relatives must use Relative Pronouns whereas restrictive Relatives also have a that/; complementizer option. The Relative Pronoun strategy must be used in non-restrictive Relatives to arrive at the propositional denotation. Second, RPPP in non-restrictive Relatives can be substantially larger than in restrictive Relatives. This is due to the semantics of Rooth-Hamblin alternative computation, used to interpret Relative Pronouns in non-restrictive Relatives, which is insensitive to syntactic barriers such as islands, although it is susceptible to intervention effects.

Roland Meyer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the c system of Relatives and complement clauses in the history of slavic languages
    Language, 2017
    Co-Authors: Roland Meyer
    Abstract:

    This article scrutinizes the diachrony of relativizers and complement clause subordinators in Russian, Polish, and Czech. Historical morphology indicates a development from agreeing Relative Pronouns via noninflected relativizers to complement clause subordinators. This concurs with recent findings on Germanic (Axel-Tober 2017), but contradicts more traditional proposals that derive subordinators from demonstratives. The respective syntactic reanalyses are demonstrated on diachronic Slavic corpus data. Moreover, a quantitative comparison of sixteenth- to seventeenth-century East Slavic texts with and without West Slavic interference suggests that the use of kotoryj ‘which’ as a Relative Pronoun spread into Russian as an inner-Slavic contact-induced change.

Sunant Anchaleenukoon - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Recognizer for Thai Complex Sentences including Relative Pronouns: /thîi/, /s/ or / an/
    2008
    Co-Authors: Yingyot Kanchina, Tipraporn Thanakulwarapas, Krit Kosawat, Sunant Anchaleenukoon
    Abstract:

    This paper presents a rule-based method to recognize the boundaries of Thai complex sentences using /thii/, /s�/ or / an/ as Relative Pronoun. We have used the first prize essays of the King Bhumiphol's scholarship award 1979 - 2004 as a learning corpus to analyse the structure of complex sentences including /thii/, /s�/ or / an/ and create the grammars in the form of "Unitex" graphs for bounding the complex sentences. The results are 73% of Recall and 68% of Precision.

  • Recognizer for Thai complex sentences including Relative Pronouns
    2008 5th International Conference on Electrical Engineering Electronics Computer Telecommunications and Information Technology, 2008
    Co-Authors: Yingyot Kanchina, Tipraporn Thanakulwarapas, Krit Kosawat, Sunant Anchaleenukoon
    Abstract:

    This paper presents a rule-based method to recognize the boundaries of Thai complex sentences using three specified Relative Pronoun. We have used the first prize essays of the King Bhumipholpsilas scholarship award 1979 - 2004 as a learning corpus to analyse the structure of complex sentences including these three Relative Pronouns and create the grammars in the form of ldquoUnitexrdquo graphs for bounding the complex sentences. The results are 73% of recall and 68% of precision.