Browsing Linguistics by Author "Bender, Emily M"
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A Finite-State Morphological Analyzer for Central Alaskan Yup'ik
Strunk, LonnyThis 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 Parametric Implementation of Valence-changing Morphology in the LinGO Grammar Matrix
Curtis, Christian MichaelThis 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 ... -
Adjectives in the LinGO Grammar Matrix
Trimble, Thomas JamesThe 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
Mohan, PreetiWord 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
Haeger, MichaelThis 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 analysis of translation divergence patterns using PanLex translation pairs
Gola, Francesca (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 ... -
Automated Gloss Mapping for Inferring Grammatical Properties
Lockwood, MichaelThis 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
Wax, David Allen (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 ... -
Braiding Language (by Computer): Lushootseed Grammar Engineering
Crowgey, JoshuaThis dissertation describes the beginnings of the t̕əbšucid project. t̕əbšucid, literally the braiding of language, is a way to refer to "grammar" in Lushootseed (also known as Puget Salish, ISO-639-3:lut). The t̕əbšucid ... -
Full Forest Treebanking
Packard, WoodleyIn 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 ... -
A Grammar Library for Information Structure
Song, Sanghoun (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 ... -
Markers of contrast in Russian: A corpus-based study
Gracheva, Varya (2013-07-25)Markers of contrast in Russian: A corpus-based study -
Modeling Adnominal Possession in the LinGO Grammar Matrix
Nielsen, Elizabeth KThis 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 ... -
Multi-predicate Constructions in Nuuchahnulth
Inman, David AnthonyThis 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 ... -
Semantic Operations for Transfer-based Machine Translation
Goodman, Michael WayneThis 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, ... -
The Syntactic Exponence of Sentential Negation: a model for the LinGO Grammar Matrix
Crowgey, Joshua David (2013-04-17)This thesis presents a revision of the LinGO Grammar Matrix library for sentential negation along with supporting arguments from syntactic and typological literature. A cross-linguistic model of representations in HPSG ... -
Tracing and Reducing Lexical Ambiguity in Automatically Inferred Grammars
Conrad, ElizabethWhile the automated creation of machine-readable grammars is a valuable resource for linguists who wish to work with these grammars for linguistic hypothesis testing, the complexity of developing a system capable of creating ...