Nested Coordination in Universal Dependencies

Przepiórkowski, Adam; Patejuk, Agnieszka

doi:10.18653/v1/w19-8007

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“…Teoria LFG umożliwia także sformalizowanie zjawiska koordynacji różnych kategorii (Przepiórkowski, Patejuk 2012a;Patejuk, Przepiórkowski 2014a;Patejuk 2015), w którego ramach koordynowane są frazy o odmiennej kategorii składniowej, odpowiadające jednak jednej pozycji składniowej, a zatem mające wspólną funkcję gramatyczną -f-struktura w (20) odpowiada zdaniu Chcę pić i papierosa (Kallas 1993: 123), gdzie dopełnienie (obj) jest frazą skoordynowaną, która składa się z bezokolicznika (pić) i rzeczownika (papierosa).…”

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POLFIE: współczesna gramatyka formalna języka polskiego

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Przepiórkowski²

2017

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POLFIE: współczesna gramatyka formalna języka polskiego

Patejuk¹,

Przepiórkowski²

2017

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“…immediately embedded -coordination: in the case of three conjuncts, A, B, C, the proposed representation does not distinguish between the flat structure (A, B,C), and the structure in which A and B are conjoined and the resulting coordination is conjoined with C, i.e., ((A, B),C). 3 Solutions to this problem are discussed in Przepiórkowski and Patejuk, 2019b. In this paper we deal with another phenomenon problematic for UD, namely, the possibility to coordinate different grammatical functions, as in the attested (3): 4 (3) [[What] obj and [when] advmod ] to eat to reduce insulin 5 Such examples violate the overwhelming generalisation that only the same grammatical functions may be coordinated. Normally, languages satisfy this generalisation and attempts to coordinate phrases bearing different grammatical functions result in unacceptability, as in ( 4)-( 5): (4) *I and an apple have already eaten.…”

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Coordination of Unlike Grammatical Functions

Patejuk¹,

Przepiórkowski²

2019

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling, SyntaxFest 2019)

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The aim of this paper is to propose a dependency analysis of coordination of unlike grammatical functions, as witnessed in Slavic and some neighbouring languages (including Romanian, Hungarian and West Armenian). In order to increase the practical impact of the analysis, the proposed representations adhere to Universal Dependencies, a syntactic corpus annotation scheme, though arguments are given for validity of such representations from the theoretical linguistic perspective.

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Cross-linguistically consistent semantic and syntactic annotation of child-directed speech

Szubert,

Abend,

Schneider

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Corpora of child speech and child-directed speech (CDS) have enabled major contributions to the study of child language acquisition, yet semantic annotation for such corpora is still scarce and lacks a uniform standard. Semantic annotation of CDS is particularly important for understanding the nature of the input children receive and developing computational models of child language acquisition. For example, under the assumption that children are able to infer meaning representations for (at least some of) the utterances they hear, the acquisition task is to learn a grammar that can map novel adult utterances onto their corresponding meaning representations, in the face of noise and distraction by other contextually possible meanings. To study this problem and to develop computational models of it, we need corpora that provide both adult utterances and their meaning representations, ideally using annotation that is consistent across a range of languages in order to facilitate cross-linguistic comparative studies. This paper proposes a methodology for constructing such corpora of CDS paired with sentential logical forms, and uses this method to create two such corpora, in English and Hebrew. The approach enforces a cross-linguistically consistent representation, building on recent advances in dependency representation and semantic parsing. Specifically, the approach involves two steps. First, we annotate the corpora using the Universal Dependencies (UD) scheme for syntactic annotation, which has been developed to apply consistently to a wide variety of domains and typologically diverse languages. Next, we further annotate these data by applying an automatic method for transducing sentential logical forms (LFs) from UD structures. The UD and LF representations have complementary strengths: UD structures are language-neutral and support consistent and reliable annotation by multiple annotators, whereas LFs are neutral as to their syntactic derivation and transparently encode semantic relations. Using this approach, we provide syntactic and semantic annotation for two corpora from CHILDES: Brown’s Adam corpus (English; we annotate $$\approx$$ ≈ 80% of its child-directed utterances), all child-directed utterances from Berman’s Hagar corpus (Hebrew). We verify the quality of the UD annotation using an inter-annotator agreement study, and manually evaluate the transduced meaning representations. We then demonstrate the utility of the compiled corpora through (1) a longitudinal corpus study of the prevalence of different syntactic and semantic phenomena in the CDS, and (2) applying an existing computational model of language acquisition to the two corpora and briefly comparing the results across languages.

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Nested Coordination in Universal Dependencies

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to extend the representation of coordination in Universal Dependencies in a way that makes it possible to distinguish between different embeddings in coordinate structures.

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POLFIE: współczesna gramatyka formalna języka polskiego

POLFIE: współczesna gramatyka formalna języka polskiego

Coordination of Unlike Grammatical Functions

Cross-linguistically consistent semantic and syntactic annotation of child-directed speech

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