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Automated Implementation Process of Machine Translation System for Related Languages
The paper presents an attempt to automate all data creation processes of a rule-based shallow-transfer machine translation system. The presented methods were tested on four fully functional translation systems covering language pairs: Slovenian paired with Serbian, Czech, English and Estonian language. An extensive range of evaluation tests was performed to assess the applicability of the methods
Beers, kaffi, and Schnaps : different grammatical options for 'restaurant talk' coercions in three Germanic languages
This paper discusses constructions like âWeâll have two beers and a coffee.â that are typically used for beverage orders in restaurant contexts. We compare the behaviour of nouns in these constructions in three Germanic languages, English, Icelandic, and German, and take a closer look at the correlation of the morpho-syntactic and semantic-conceptual changes involved here. We show that even within such a closely related linguistic sample, one finds three different grammatical options for the expression of the same conceptual transition. Our findings suggest an analysis of coercion as a genuinely semantic phenomenon, a phenomenon that is located on a level of semantic representations that serves as an interface between the conceptual and the grammatical system and takes into account inter- and intralinguistic variations
Syntax, morphology, and phonology in text-to-speech systems
The paper is concerned with the integration of linguistic information in text-to-speech systems. Research in synthesis proper is at a stage where the need for systematic integration of comprehensive linguistic information in such systems is making itself felt more than ever. A surface structure parsing system is presented whose main virtue is that it permits linguists to express syntactic as well as lexical and morphological regularities and irregularities of a language in a simple and easy-to-learn formalism. Most aspects of the system are seen in the light of Danish and - sporadically - English and Finnish surface structure
Stochastic phonological grammars and acceptability
In foundational works of generative phonology it is claimed that subjects can
reliably discriminate between possible but non-occurring words and words that
could not be English. In this paper we examine the use of a probabilistic
phonological parser for words to model experimentally-obtained judgements of
the acceptability of a set of nonsense words. We compared various methods of
scoring the goodness of the parse as a predictor of acceptability. We found
that the probability of the worst part is not the best score of acceptability,
indicating that classical generative phonology and Optimality Theory miss an
important fact, as these approaches do not recognise a mechanism by which the
frequency of well-formed parts may ameliorate the unacceptability of
low-frequency parts. We argue that probabilistic generative grammars are
demonstrably a more psychologically realistic model of phonological competence
than standard generative phonology or Optimality Theory.Comment: compressed postscript, 8 pages, 1 figur
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