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&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 ... -
A Comparative Analysis of Transcription Errors from Major Commercial Automatic Speech Recognition Systems on Speakers of Four Ethnic Backgrounds in the Pacific Northwest
Major commercial ASR systems have demonstrated higher transcription error rates for non-white American English speakers, particularly for African American speakers, and there is evidence that sociophonetic features are ... -
A Finite-State Morphological Analyzer for Central Alaskan Yup'ik
This thesis presents a detailed description of the design and implementation of a finite-state morphological analyzer for Central Alaskan Yup'ik (ISO 639-3: esu). Using a dictionary and a grammatical description of the ... -
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 Grammar of Lushootseed: Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology
In this dissertation, I document the phonetics, phonology, and morphology of Lushootseed from a corpus of recordings recovered from the archives of the University of Washington’s Burke Museum. There are several goals to ... -
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 ... -
The acquisition of Spanish gender by English-speaking children in partial immersion setting
(2004)This study investigates how English-speaking 5--7 year olds in a Spanish immersion program acquire the Spanish gender system.Perez-Pereira (1991) has shown that native Spanish-speaking children do not attend to semantic ... -
Adjectives in the LinGO Grammar Matrix
The LinGO Grammar Matrix (Bender et al. 2002, 2010) provides a system for user-linguists to jump start the creation of starter Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar precision grammars (Pollard and Sag 1994), with semantic ... -
An Analysis of Gender Bias in K-12 Assigned Literature Through Comparison of Non-Contextual Word Embedding Models
Word embeddings are mathematical representations of words computed from a group of texts that a machine learning model is trained on. Generally, words that are similar to each othersemantically will be closer together ... -
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 ... -
An Investigation Into Supervision for Seq2Seq Techniques for Natural Language to Code Translation
This thesis examines the role of supervised data using small-scale datasets for the natural language to code task. The primary angles of inquiry are from analyzing the balance between unsupervised learning and supervised ... -
An analysis of translation divergence patterns using PanLex translation pairs
(2012-09-13)This analysis was performed to understand the patterns of translation divergences occurring in high and low frequency verbs, and to test the hypothesis that high frequency verbs are more prone to translation divergences ... -
Array TFS storage for unification grammars
(2012-09-13)Constraint-based grammar formalisms such as Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) model linguistic entities as sets of attribute-value tuples headed by types drawn from a connected multiple-inheritance hierarchy. ... -
ASR and Human Recognition Errors: Predictability and Lexical Factors
Considering the complexity of speech communication, it is unsurprising that a listener occasionally misrecognizes an utterance. However, by examining patterns across many recognition errors, researchers ... -
Assembling Syntax: Modeling Constituent Questions in a Grammar Engineering Framework
This dissertation is dedicated to a cross-linguistic account of constituent (aka wh-) questions as part of a grammar engineering toolkit, the Grammar Matrix, couched in the Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar formalism ... -
Attitudes Toward Korean-Accented and Korean American English
(2012-09-13)This thesis investigates the contributions of specific phonetic variables in the speech of native Korean L2 English speakers to perceptions of accentedness clarity. By correlating listeners' attitudinal responses with ... -
Automated Gloss Mapping for Inferring Grammatical Properties
This thesis describes a software system that maps glosses from interlinear glossed text (IGT) to an internally consistent set. This study hypothesizes that mapping glosses supports better inference of grammatical properties. ... -
Automated Grammar Engineering for Verbal Morphology
(2014-04-30)This study examines the cross-linguistic potential for the automatic analysis of verbal morphology and creation of implemented formal grammars using the Grammar Matrix customization system and the rich linguistic resource ... -
Automatic Detection Of Language Levels in L2 English Learners
(2012-08-10)This study analyzes different features which would enable classifiers to detect language levels in adult second language (L2) English Learners. Approximately 46 different speech samples from users speaking 15 different ... -
Automatically Inferring Grammar Specifications for Adnominal Possession from Interlinear Glossed Text
This thesis presents an update to the AGGREGATION grammar inference project: namely, the ability to automatically infer information about adnominal possession for a given lan- guage. Specifically, I contribute code that ...