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Endangered languages, technology and learning: A Yakama/Yakima Sahaptin case study
Efforts to support Indigenous and endangered language education continue to utilize technology in a variety of ways. As the vitality of many languages around the world continues to be threatened, it is important to reassess ... -
Enriching Scientific Paper Embeddings with Citation Context
Amid profusion of scientific literature, methods to organize and search available papers are quite valuable. Embedded representations of papers have potential to be used as input to a variety of tasks related to research ... -
Ethnic History and Language Typology in Western China: The Cases of Xining, Daohua and Bai
The following dissertation examines the language history of areas historically lying along the China-Tibet frontier, namely Amdo, Kham and the Dali region of northwest Yunnan. It draws from a wide and diverse literature ... -
Evaluating Transformer's Ability to Learn Mildly Context-Sensitive Languages
Transformer models perform well on NLP tasks, but recent theoretical studies suggest their ability in modeling certain regular and context-free languages are limited. This creates a disparity given their success in modeling ... -
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 ... -
Explorations In Curriculum Learning Methods For Training Language Models
Understanding language depending on the context of its usage has always been one of thecore goals of natural language processing. Recently, contextual word representations created by language models like ELMo, BERT, ELECTRA, ... -
Exploring Applications of Rootedness in Sociolinguistic Research in Southern Oregon
The present dissertation discusses the importance of rootedness, defined as orientation towards place, and how it factors into sociolinguistic studies. Although rootedness is not a new concept in sociolinguistics, it has ... -
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 ... -
Extracting and Inferring Personal Attributes from Dialogue
Personal attributes represent structured information about a person, such as their hobbies, pets, family, likes and dislikes. In this work, we introduce the tasks of extracting and inferring personal attributes from ... -
Extracting Topically Related Synonyms from Twitter using Syntactic and Paraphrase Data
The goal of synonym extraction is to automatically gather synsets (groups of synonyms) from a corpus. This task is related to the tasks of normalization and paraphrase detection. We present a series of approaches for synonym ... -
Faculty Attitudes Towards Heritage Language and Heritage Language Teaching Policy in Washington State Community College Spanish Departments
Felix (2009) and Potowski (2002) have shown that negative attitudes about Heritage language can impact Heritage speakers in the classroom. This paper describes research carried out to assess the attitudes toward Heritage ... -
From Aari to Zulu: Massively Multilingual Creation of Language Tools using Interlinear Glossed Text
This dissertation examines the suitability of Interlinear Glossed Text (IGT) as a computational, semi-structured resource for creating NLP tools for resource-poor languages, with a focus on the tasks of word alignment, ... -
Full Forest Treebanking
In this thesis, I present a new method of producing treebanks using constraint-based grammars. Rather than requiring an explicitly enumerated set of candidate analyses per utterance, my method works from an implicit ... -
Functional categories and the acquisition of aspect in L2 Spanish: a longitudinal study
(2000)This dissertation is concerned with the interaction between morphosyntax and semantics in examining how L2 learners acquire the form-meaning relationship of Spanish aspect, i.e. mastering the preterit and imperfect past ... -
Generativism and Emergentism: Evidence From Second Language Acquisition Studies of Poverty of the Stimulus Phenomena
This work applies evidence from second language acquisition studies to the question of the existence of an inborn, language-specific system that constrains the set of possible human grammars. Three sets of studies are ... -
A Grammar Library for Information Structure
(2014-04-30)This dissertation makes substantial contributions to both the theoretical and computational treatment of information structure, with an eye toward creating natural language processing applications such as multilingual ... -
Historical syntax of the English articles in relation to the count/non-count distinction
(1996)This dissertation focuses on functional nodes within the structure of the English noun phrase. The count/non-count distinction affects multiple aspects of the syntax of noun phrases, but the syntactic basis for that ... -
How peripheral a phenomenon is it?: On the interaction of DP-internal ellipsis, degree inversion, and islands
In this dissertation I set out to solve a series of puzzles related to the notion of a DP periphery, defined as an area around the edge of a given domain targeted by operations such as movement and agreement. In solving ... -
Human-assisted Neural Machine Translation: Harnessing Human Feedback for Machine Translation
Neural machine translation (NMT) is a promising approach to the task of machine translation that has led to state-of-the-art results in many settings. However, NMT translations are still far from sufficient for many practical ... -
The imperfective paradox in the English progressive and other semantic course corrections
(2000)The topic of this work is semantic course corrections. I use this term to refer to a discourse-level phenomenon that sheds light on a number of puzzles in semantics and pragmatics at the level of the sentence. At issue ...