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Issues in Named Entity Recognition on Early Modern English Letters
The influx of digitized historical documents into online collections has made the study of these documents much more accessible to researchers and the general public. This data, however, is frequently raw data sometimes ... -
Verb-linking and Events in Syntax: The Case of Uyghur -(i)p Constructions
This dissertation explores the syntactic structures of Uyghur multi-verb constructions formed using the verb-linking -(i)p suffix. In such constructions, only the final verb is inflected for tense, and -(i)p attaches to ... -
Named Entity Resolution for Historical Texts
The field of digital humanities has spurred an increase in applications of computational lin- guistics to historical documents, but the field remains underdeveloped. Standard natural language processing (NLP) techniques ... -
Pronouns Raising and Emerging
This dissertation revisits the question of the syntactic and semantic status of pronouns, incorporating new syntactic, sociolinguistic, and pragmatic data to support an analysis of n-to-D head movement in the nominal domain. ... -
Multi-predicate Constructions in Nuuchahnulth
This dissertation documents and models two types of multi-predicate constructions in Nuuchahnulth: serial verb constructions, and a construction involving the suffix -(q)ḥ, which is called the predicate linker. I define a ... -
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 ...
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