... disap-
pointing results ofjoint learning on syntacticand
semantic parsing, Miller et al. (2000) and Finkel
and Manning (2009) showed the effectiveness of
joint learning on syntacticparsingand some
simple ... explore jointsyntacticand se-
mantic parsing to improve the performance of
both syntacticandsemantic parsing, in particular
that ofsemantic parsing. Evaluation shows that
our integrated parsing ... to semanticparsing but also al-
lows useful information from semanticparsing to
be carried backward to syntactic parsing.
This paper explores joint learning ofsyntactic
and semantic parsing...
... the range ofsyntactic pos-
sibilities and the parser will align tone group and
move syntactic boundaries at a later stage.
By integrating syntax and semantics, the
Parser is capable of resolving ...
ical and structural ambiguities in spoken English.
In this paper we present some results of employ-
ing two types of prosodic information, namely
pitch and pause, to assist syntacticandsemantic ...
ration (of words, morphemes and pauses) and
rhythm. While all of these are important cues, we
are currently focussing on pitch and pauses as
these are easily extracted from the waveform
and offer...
... set
of features: the article before; the POS before
and after; the preposition before and after, and the
syntactic category before and after the word be-
ing labeled. The features used in both of ... Dependency and Ontological Knowledge to Improve a
Detailed SyntacticandSemantic Tagger of English
Andrew Finch
NiCT
∗
-ATR
†
Kyoto, Japan
andrew.finch
@atr.jp
Ezra Black
Epimenides Corp.
New York, ... English
Treebank. This consists of 518,080 words (ap-
proximately 20 words per sentence, on average) of
text annotated with a detailed semanticand syntac-
tic tagset.
To understand the nature of the task involved
in...
... 7–24.
Syntax and Semantics with fMRI 363
Syntactic Violations
Table I and Figs. 1 and 2 show that syntactic violations elicited
greater activation than semantic anomalies in a number of regions of the
superior ... underlie semantic memory more generally, both
in the encoding and retrieval of information, and in its long-term storage.
358 Newman et al.
An Event-Related fMRI Study ofSyntactic and
Semantic ... compared blocks of spoken
sentences containing a mixture ofsyntactic (verb agreement) violations and
well-formed sentences, and other blocks containing a mixture of semantically
incongruous and congruous...
... and Hitoshi
Isahara. 2009. An error-driven word-character hybrid
model for jointChinese word segmentation and POS
tagging. In Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the
47th Annual Meeting of ... com-
bination of the features used in the state -of- the-art
joint segmentation and POS tagging model (Zhang
and Clark, 2010) and dependency parser (Huang and
Sagae, 2010), both of which are used ... %) of SegTagDep on CTB-
5c-1 w.r.t. the training epoch (x-axis) and parsing
feature weights (in legend).
tagging (Zhang and Clark, 2008; Zhang and Clark,
2010) and dependency parsing (Huang and...
... individ-
ual parsing models is the assigned cluster labels, and
hence some of the cluster-based features. In a fu-
ture work, we plan to take the union of all of the
feature sets and train a joint discriminative ... different syntactic or semantic
cluster representations, each of which may lead to a
different parsing model. We use ensemble learning
(Dietterich, 2002) in order to combine a collection
of diverse and ... the list of cluster-based feature templates. The
clusters inject long distance syntactic or semantic in-
formation into the model (in contrast with the use
of POS tags in the baseline) and help...
... A., and Navarro, D. (2009).
Joint acquisition of word order and word refer-
ence. In Proceedings of the 31th Annual Con-
ference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Pearl, L., Goldwater, S., and ... model
of child syntactic- semantic acquisition by parsing
unseen data.
Models of child word learning have focused
on semantics only, learning word meanings from
utterances paired with either sets of ... procedure has two parts: logical
splitting of the category semantics h; and syntac-
tic splitting of the syntactic category X. Each logi-
cal split of h is a pair of lambda expressions (f, g)
in the...
... of pleasure: “cheerful”, “gay”, “glad”, “merry” and “pleased” in terms of grammar and
semantics. Their grammatical features include syntactic functions and morphological features, and
the semantics ... respect of semantics, “glad” and
“pleased” have one of their senses of
denoting the feeling of pleasure when
something good has happened. “Cheerful”
has one of three senses suggesting one of the ... people) and “gayness”
(n) (denoting the state of being gay).
2.3. “Glad”
2.3.1. Grammatical features and semantics of “Glad”
“Glad” has a number of the syntactic
functions as head of an adjectival...
... module developed and
implemented by Dorna and Emele (1996a). In
the case ofsyntactic transfer, transfer is de-
fined on term representations of f-structures. In
the case ofsemantic transfer, ...
(6) a.
Oft kocht Hans gerne
b. Hans kocht gerne oft
c. Often Hans likes cooking
d. Hans likes cooking often
(6a) is ambiguous between (6c) and (6d), (6b)
can only mean (6d). (6c) and (6d) ...
Target and source levels of representation in
transfer-based machine translation (MT) are
subject to often competing demands: on the one
hand, they need to abstract away from partic-
ulars of...
... otherwise.
(3)
where s
1
a and s
2
b indicate the concatenation of
the sequences s and t with the argument nodes, a
and b, respectively and σ(h(a),h(b)) is 1 if the
children of a and b are identical ... Efficiency of SRK and SSTK
tain more than one PAS, we applied SRK or SSTK
to all pairs P
1
× P
2
and sum the obtained contri-
bution, where P
1
and P
2
are the set of PASs of the
first and second ... of syntactic/ semantic structures for rela-
tional learning from questions and answers. We
designed sequence kernels for words and Part of
Speech Tags which capture basic lexical seman-
tics and...