An Application of the PDT-scheme to a Parallel Treebank

Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories. Editors: Koenraad De Smedt, Jan Hajič and Sandra Kübler. NEALT Proceedings Series, Vol. 1 (2007), 163-174. © 2007 The editors and contributors. Published by Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT) http://omilia.uio.no/nealt . Electronically published at Tartu University Library (Estonia) http://hdl.handle.net/10062/4476

Compounds in the Czech sign language

The present bachelor's thesis analyzes compounds in the Czech sign language. Introductory chapters present a brief summary of word-formation in Czech, of compound types in Czech and the principles of formation of new signs in the Czech sign language. For the purposes of this work, the author made excerpts of Czech sign language compounds from a selected sample of print and electronic dictionaries of the Czech sign language, on the basis of which she described the nature of different types of compounds in the Czech sign language (spoken language-affected compounds vs. true compounds; subordinate and coordinate compounds; sequential, simultaneous and sequential-simultaneous compounds). Also, a part of this work presents a study on phonological processes in sequential compounds that occur during the articulation

Discourse relations in Czech and their representation in an annotated corpus of texts

The present thesis is a contribution to the widely discussed issue of how the syntactic structure of a sentence and the structure of discourse (text) are related. The syntactic sentence structure along with other language phenomena participates in building a coherent, comprehensible discourse. The author calls the syntactically motivated relations in discourse connective relations. These relations include coordinating relations and some of the subordinating relations within a sentence and, secondly, adjoining of discourse units across the sentence boundary. The explicit means of expressing connective relations are called discourse connectives. It is a group of language expressions that connect or adjoin discourse units while indicating the type of semantic relation between them, i. e. conjunctions, some subjunctions, particles and adverbials, and marginally also some other parts-of-speech. The present thesis describes the semantic category of discourse connectives in Czech on the basis of language data and their syntactic annotation in the Prague Dependency Treebank, and thus aims to contribute to the design of a language corpus annotation scenario capturing the discourse relations in Czech

Discourse relations in Czech and their representation in an annotated corpus of texts

The present thesis is a contribution to the widely discussed issue of how the syntactic structure of a sentence and the structure of discourse (text) are related. The syntactic sentence structure along with other language phenomena participates in building a coherent, comprehensible discourse. The author calls the syntactically motivated relations in discourse connective relations. These relations include coordinating relations and some of the subordinating relations within a sentence and, secondly, adjoining of discourse units across the sentence boundary. The explicit means of expressing connective relations are called discourse connectives. It is a group of language expressions that connect or adjoin discourse units while indicating the type of semantic relation between them, i. e. conjunctions, some subjunctions, particles and adverbials, and marginally also some other parts-of-speech. The present thesis describes the semantic category of discourse connectives in Czech on the basis of language data and their syntactic annotation in the Prague Dependency Treebank, and thus aims to contribute to the design of a language corpus annotation scenario capturing the discourse relations in Czech

Compounds in the Czech sign language

The present bachelor's thesis analyzes compounds in the Czech sign language. Introductory chapters present a brief summary of word-formation in Czech, of compound types in Czech and the principles of formation of new signs in the Czech sign language. For the purposes of this work, the author made excerpts of Czech sign language compounds from a selected sample of print and electronic dictionaries of the Czech sign language, on the basis of which she described the nature of different types of compounds in the Czech sign language (spoken language-affected compounds vs. true compounds; subordinate and coordinate compounds; sequential, simultaneous and sequential-simultaneous compounds). Also, a part of this work presents a study on phonological processes in sequential compounds that occur during the articulation