Representation and parsing of multiword expressions: Current trends

Representation and parsing of multiword expressions: Current trends
Author: Jakub Waszczuk
Publisher: Language Science Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2019
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3961101450

This book consists of contributions related to the definition, representation and parsing of MWEs. These reflect current trends in the representation and processing of MWEs. They cover various categories of MWEs such as verbal, adverbial and nominal MWEs, various linguistic frameworks (e.g. tree-based and unification-based grammars), various languages including English, French, Modern Greek, Hebrew, Norwegian), and various applications (namely MWE detection, parsing, automatic translation) using both symbolic and statistical approaches.

Multiword expressions in lexical resources

Multiword expressions in lexical resources
Author: Voula Giouli
Publisher: Language Science Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2024-06-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3961104700

This volume contains chapters that paint the current landscape of the multiword expressions (MWE) representation in lexical resources, in view of their robust identification and computational processing. Both large-size general lexica and smaller MWE-centred ones are included, with special focus on the representation decisions and mechanisms that facilitate their usage in Natural Language Processing tasks. The presentations go beyond the morpho-syntactic description of MWEs, into their semantics. One challenge in representing MWEs in lexical resources is ensuring that the variability along with extra features required by the different types of MWEs can be captured efficiently. In this respect, recommendations for representing MWEs in mono- and multilingual computational lexicons have been proposed; these focus mainly on the syntactic and semantic properties of support verbs and noun compounds and their proper encoding thereof.

Recent Advances in Multiword Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology

Recent Advances in Multiword Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology
Author: Johanna Monti
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2024-11-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027246386

The investigation of phraseology through corpus-based and computational approaches holds significant relevance for various professionals, including translators, interpreters, terminologists, lexicographers, language instructors, and learners. Computational Phraseology, and in particular the computational analysis of multiword expressions (also known as multiword units), has gained prominence in recent years and is essential for a number of Natural Language Processing and Translation Technology applications. The failure to detect these units automatically could result in incorrect and problematic automatic translations and could hinder the performance of applications such as text summarisation and web search. Against this background, the volume offers 13 articles carefully selected and organised into two parts: ‘Computational treatment of multiword units’ and ‘Corpus-based and linguistic studies in phraseology‘. The contributions not only highlight the latest advancements in computational and corpus-based phraseology but also reiterate its vital role in all areas of language technologies, including basic and applied research.

Persian Computational Linguistics and NLP

Persian Computational Linguistics and NLP
Author: Katarzyna Marszałek-Kowalewska
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2023-05-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110616718

In this series, Iranian languages and linguistics take centre stage. Each volume is dedicated to a key topic and brings together leading experts from around the globe.

Support-verb constructions in the corpora of Greek

Support-verb constructions in the corpora of Greek
Author: Victoria Beatrix Fendel
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2024-11-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3985541140

This volume brings together corpora that span more than 3,000 years of the history of the Greek language, from Ittzés' chapter on the proto-language to Giouli's chapter on the modern language. The authors take wider or narrower approaches with regard to the form and functionof the type of construction that they include in the group of support-verb constructions: while all would agree that English to take initiative is a support-verb construction, opinions differ on English to take wing. The chapters reflect a fascinating diversity of approaches to support-verb constructions, including Natural Language Processing, Comparative Philology, New Testament Exegesis, Coptology, and General Linguistics. The volume is structured along the three interfaces that support-verb constructions sit on, the syntax-lexicon, the syntax-semantics, and the syntax-pragmatics interfaces. We finish with four concrete avenues for further research. Faced with the diversity of approaches and the magnitude of disagreements arising from them when working with as internally diverse a group of constructions as support-verb constructions, we strive for in varietate unitas.

Computational and Corpus-Based Phraseology

Computational and Corpus-Based Phraseology
Author: Gloria Corpas Pastor
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2022-09-21
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 303115925X

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computational and Corpus-Based Phraseology, Europhras 2022, held in Malaga, Spain, in September 2022. The 16 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 59 submissions. The papers in this volume cover a number of topics including general corpus-based approaches to phraseology, phraseology in translation and cross-linguistic studies, phraseology in language teaching and learning, phraseology in specialized languages, phraseology in lexicography, cognitive approaches to phraseology, the computational treatment of multiword expressions, and the development, annotation, and exploitation of corpora for phraseological studies.

Formulaic language

Formulaic language
Author: Aleksandar Trklja
Publisher: Language Science Press
Total Pages: 241
Release:
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3961103100

The notion of formulaicity has received increasing attention in disciplines and areas as diverse as linguistics, literary studies, art theory and art history. In recent years, linguistic studies of formulaicity have been flourishing and the very notion of formulaicity has been approached from various methodological and theoretical perspectives and with various purposes in mind. The linguistic approach to formulaicity is still in a state of rapid development and the objective of the current volume is to present the current explorations in the field. Papers collected in the volume make numerous suggestions for further development of the field and they are arranged into three complementary parts. The first part, with three chapters, presents new theoretical and methodological insights as well as their practical application in the development of custom-designed software tools for identification and exploration of formulaic language in texts. Two papers in the second part explore formulaic language in the context of language learning. Finally, the third part, with three chapters, showcases descriptive research on formulaic language conducted primarily from the perspectives of corpus linguistics and translation studies. The volume will be of interest to anyone involved in the study of formulaic language either from a theoretical or a practical perspective.

Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
Author: Stefan Müller
Publisher: Language Science Press
Total Pages: 1718
Release: 2024-11-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3961104824

Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) is a constraint-based or declarative approach to linguistic knowledge, which analyses all descriptive levels (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics) with feature value pairs, structure sharing, and relational constraints. In syntax it assumes that expressions have a single relatively simple constituent structure. This volume provides a state-of-the-art introduction to the framework. Various chapters discuss basic assumptions and formal foundations, describe the evolution of the framework, and go into the details of the main syntactic phenomena. Further chapters are devoted to non-syntactic levels of description. The book also considers related fields and research areas (gesture, sign languages, computational linguistics) and includes chapters comparing HPSG with other frameworks (Lexical Functional Grammar, Categorial Grammar, Construction Grammar, Dependency Grammar, and Minimalism).

Multiword expressions

Multiword expressions
Author: Manfred Sailer
Publisher: Language Science Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2018
Genre: Bilingualism
ISBN: 3961100632

Multiword expressions (MWEs) are a challenge for both the natural language applications and the linguistic theory because they often defy the application of the machinery developed for free combinations where the default is that the meaning of an utterance can be predicted from its structure. There is a rich body of primarily descriptive work on MWEs for many European languages but comparative work is little. The volume brings together MWE experts to explore the benefits of a multilingual perspective on MWEs. The ten contributions in this volume look at MWEs in Bulgarian, English, French, German, Maori, Modern Greek, Romanian, Serbian, and Spanish. They discuss prominent issues in MWE research such as classification of MWEs, their formal grammatical modeling, and the description of individual MWE types from the point of view of different theoretical frameworks, such as Dependency Grammar, Generative Grammar, Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical Functional Grammar, Lexicon Grammar.

Artificial Intelligence in HCI

Artificial Intelligence in HCI
Author: Helmut Degen
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 566
Release: 2021-07-03
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030777723

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in HCI, AI-HCI 2021, which was held as part of HCI International 2021 and took place virtually during July 24-29, 2021. The total of 1276 papers and 241 posters included in the 39 HCII 2021 proceedings volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 5222 submissions. The papers included in this volume were organized in topical sections as follows: Ethics, trust and explainability; human-centered AI; AI applications in HCI; and AI applications in smart environments.