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When change comes from within: The origin and diachronic development of 'positive' anymore from pre-Modern Scots to Modern North American English
The goal of this thesis is to provide a syntactic account of the diachronic development of the adverb anymore from a polarity sensitive aspectual adverb in Late Middle Scots (approximately 1550 to 1700), shown in (1); to ... -
Contextual Scripture Recommendation for Writers
Recommendation of book passages, quotes, or citations based on a given text can aid writing, research, literary analysis, and the incorporation of legal references (e.g. laws, previous cases). Each of these applications ... -
Korean Learners' Long-Term Individual Networks of Practice
This dissertation examines investment in language learning, especially how that investment looks over the entirety of a learner’s target language-related journey. It investigates investment, in terms of positive and negative ... -
Exploring Phone Recognition in Pre-verbal and Dysarthric Speech
In this study, we perform phone recognition on speech utterances made by two groups of people: adults who have speech articulation disorders and young children learning to speak language. We explore how these utterances ... -
&0: The Syntax and Semantics of 'Slash' and 'And/or'
I claim that 'slash' has become the first new coordinator in English in recent history. I use data from naturally observed spontaneous conversation and examples from corpora to demonstrate that 'slash' is an English syntactic ... -
Ways to be a Good Consultant: Answer Ranking in Medical Domain
In this study, we make a move to answer ranking task of medical community question answering (QA). The task of answer ranking has four different settings based on whether features from questions or other answers are used. ... -
Understanding and Generating Multi-Sentence Texts
English is often found in units comprised of multiple sentences, but synthesizing information across sentence boundaries, whether for understanding or generation, is a difficult challenge for natural language processing ... -
Parallel Sentence Detection in Comparable Corpora with Bilingual Word Embeddings for Low-resource Languages
In an emergency, machine translation systems can be useful in facilitating international cooperation during rescue efforts. Unfortunately, training resources (bitexts) for many language pairs are scarce and tend to comprise ... -
Evidence for DP in Chinese from Reduplicative Classifiers and DP-Internal Information Structural Phenomena
This dissertation argues in favor of the Universal DP Hypothesis, which claims that all languages have DPs which contain extended functional projections above the NP, as opposed to the Parameterized DP Hypothesis, which ... -
Labeling and Automatically Identifying Basic-Level Categories
Basic-level categories are the primary categories humans use to think and communicate; they are the first categories learned, with numerous psychological advantages including quick exemplar recognition time. They are ... -
Polyglot Text Classification with Neural Document Models
Sometimes, annotating data for text classification is expensive, so one must rely on techniques like parameter sharing and semi-supervised learning to improve classification performance in low-resource environments. In ... -
Cross-Linguistic Acoustic Characteristics of Phonation: A Machine Learning Approach
Phonation, the process of producing a quasi-periodic sound wave through vocal fold vibration, plays different roles in different languages. Phonation types, or voice qualities, are produced by adjusting the length, thickness, ... -
Semantic Operations for Transfer-based Machine Translation
This dissertation describes a new approach to the automatic extraction of semantic mappings (transfer rules) for rule-based machine translation. This approach continues previous work in combining HPSG rule-based grammars, ... -
Modeling Adnominal Possession in the LinGO Grammar Matrix
This thesis describes the expansion of the LinGO Grammar Matrix customization system with a library handling adnominal possession. This library extends the Grammar Matrix's ability to aid in the rapid prototyping of precision ... -
A Generative-Discriminative Framework for Title Generation in the E-commerce Domain
Multi-Engine (system combination) Machine Translation (MEMT) systems produce several outputs which will then be refined to produce a higher quality translation output. In the case where source sentences are absent in the ... -
A Parametric Implementation of Valence-changing Morphology in the LinGO Grammar Matrix
This thesis describes an analysis of valence-changing verbal morphology implemented as a library extending the LinGO Grammar Matrix customization system. This analysis is based on decomposition of these operations into ... -
Non-Nominative Subjects in Russian and Lithuanian: Case, Argument Structure, and Anaphor Binding
In this dissertation, I aim to provide a comprehensive view of subjects in Russian and Lithuanian that have a morphological case other than nominative. Non-nominative subjects (NNSs) provide a window into the notion of ... -
An Evidentiality Library for the LinGO Grammar Matrix
This thesis describes a library extending the LinGO Grammar Matrix to support evidentiality. Evidentiality refers to the linguistic phenomenon where elements of a language’s grammar express the source of information for a ... -
Um and Uh, and the Expression of Stance in Conversational Speech
Um and uh are some of the most frequent items in spoken American and British English (Biber et al., 1999). They have been traditionally treated as disfluencies but recent research has focused on their discursive functions ... -
Dependency Parsing for Tweets
This thesis concentrates on the problem of dependency parsing for Twitter texts. Twitter texts, also called tweets, are a typical kind of web domain language with many informal and specific linguistic phenomena (Eisenstein, ...
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