Posts Tagged ‘linguistics’
Meaning-Text Theory
Posted by: linasv on: 2009-11-08
During some recent reading, it struck me that a useful framework for thinking about and talking about sentence generation is the MTT or “meaning-text theory” of Igor Mel’cuk, et al Here is one readable reference:
Igor A. Mel’čuk and Alain Polguère, (1987) “A Formal Lexicon in Meaning-Text Theory”, Computational Linguistics, vol. 13, pp. 261-275.
portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=48160.48166
www.aclweb.org/anthology/J/J87/J87-3006.pdf
Within the [...]
Semantic dependency relations
Posted by: linasv on: 2009-10-05
I spent the weekend comparing the Stanford parser to RelEx, and learned a lot. RelEx really does deserve to be called a “semantic relation extractor”, and not just a “dependency relation extractor”. It provides a more abstract, more semantic output than the Stanford parser, which sticks very narrowly to the syntactic structure of [...]
Frequency of grammatical disjuncts
Posted by: linasv on: 2009-07-06
- In: Development| Theory
- 2 Comments
The link-grammar parser uses labeled links to connect together pairs of words. In order to capture the idea of proper grammatical construction, any given word is only allowed to have very specific links to its right or left: for example, verbs have their subject on the left, and an object on the right. Link-grammar defines [...]
Distribution of Mutual Information
Posted by: linasv on: 2009-03-11
- In: Development| Theory
- 1 Comment
A bit of corpus linguistics is performed to examine the mutual information distribution of word pairs.
- jasonforceau: Hi, i am looking for tools for syntactic analysis for the system of my Final Year Project and found your post so interesting. But I don't know Link-Gr
- linasv: These graphs were discussed on the corpora mailing list in March 2009. See http://mailman.uib.no/public/corpora/2009-March/008193.html and followups i
- linasv: Martin Reynaert wrote to say: ''From what I have learned from the work of mainly Ramon Ferrer i Cancho ( http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~rferrericancho/p
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