SUMMARY : Session O15-W Treebanks and Acquisition

 

Title Searching treebanks for functional constraints: cross-lingual experiments in grammatical relation assignment
Authors F. Dell’orletta, A. Lenci, S. Montemagni, V. Pirrelli
Abstract The paper reports on a detailed quantitative analysis of distributional language data of both Italian and Czech, highlighting the relative contribution of a number of distributed grammatical factors to sentence-based identification of subjects and direct objects. The work is based on a Maximum Entropy model of stochastic resolution of grammatical conflicting constraints, and is demonstrably capable of putting explanatory theoretical accounts to the challenging test of an extensive, usage-based empirical verification.
Keywords Treebanks, Language typology, Language Models
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