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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR"”.
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Towards a machine-learning architecture for lexical functional grammar parsing
Data-driven grammar induction aims at producing wide-coverage grammars of human languages. Initial efforts in this field produced relatively shallow linguistic representations such as phrase-structure trees, which only encode constituent structure. Recent work on inducing deep grammars from …
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A Lexical Functional Grammar Account of Spanish Weak Dative Pronominals
This thesis is concerned with Spanish weak dative pronominals. Similar elements-generally labelled as clitics- in many languages have been focus of much research in Linguistics. The present study, however, abstracts away from classic approaches that had the external form of clitics as their main …
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Word prediction in assistive technologies for Aphasia rehabilitation in using Systemic Functional Grammar
… of a word prediction strategy based on Systemic Functional Grammar, which incorporates syntactic and contextual analysis; and its potential for aiding language production in assistive technologies</p>
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Using ChatGPT as a Tool to Acquire the Passive Voice in English
… people learn English passive voice. Lexical Functional Grammar was mentioned and compared to transformational grammar. A survey was conducted, and the results indicated that ChatGPT is helpful for people, and they would rely on its answers. Every prompt in the thesis was generated with the …
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A Systemic-Functional Approach to Communicative course Design in English Language Teaching
… of this thesis that the language taught in a functional notional course may be meaningful, but it is not in any real sense communicative. The aim of the thesis, therefore, is to develop a new approach to communicative course design, through the application of the most communicative linguistic …
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A multimodal perspective on modality in the English language classroom
… the notion of ‘context’ and drawing on systemic functional grammar discuss how modal forms function in discourse to realise interpersonal relations. Moving my research to the English language classroom I collect ethnographic classroom data and using social semiotic multimodality as an analytical …
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Η ΕΝΝΟΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΥΠΟΚΕΙΜΕΝΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΤΟΥ ΘΕΜΑΤΟΣ. ΘΕΩΡΗΤΙΚΗ ΕΡΕΥΝΑ ΚΑΙ ΠΕΙΡΑΜΑΤΙΚΗ ΕΞΕΤΑΣΗ ΣΤΑ ΓΑΛΛΙΚΑ
… OF SUBJECT AND THEME. OUR FRAMEWORK IS FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR, ACCORDING TO WHICH WE PROPOSE A MODEL OF SUBJECT AND THEME. BY CONSTRUCTING A MODEL, WE AIM IN DEFINING THE FUNCTION OF SUBJECT AND THEME BY MEANS OF CERTAIN CRITERIA OF IDENTIFICATION. THE EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION OF THE MODEL …
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An LFG approach to Modern Greek Relative Clauses
… clauses). Working in the framework of Lexical Functional Grammar, we present an overview of the most important properties of Modern Greek Relative Clauses focusing on the distribution of the gap and resumption strategies in these constructions. We propose an analysis of Relative Clauses that …
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Restoring the history of the subaltern: a corpus-informed study of ‘The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave’
… from Halliday’s (2004) account of Systemic Functional Grammar and Hoey’s (2005) theory of Lexical Priming the aim of this thesis is to propose a critical method of examining the language used by the subaltern to talk about their experiences. First, I discuss how the linguistic theories …
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Grammatical feature data-oriented parsing
… Parsing (DOP) are augmented with the functional representations of Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG). The result is a robust parsing model which generates linguistically informed output. However, difficulties arise in the accurate implementation of fragmentation and sampling in this …
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A unification-based natural language interface to a database.
An implementation of a Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) natural language front-end to a database is presented, and its capabilities demonstrated by reference to a set of queries used in the Chat-80 system. The potential of LFG for such applications is explored. Other grammars previously used for …
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Exploiting multi-word units in statistical parsing and generation
… (in our case, surface realisation from Lexical-Functional Grammar f-structures). We show that, by exploiting knowledge about MWUs, certain classes of parsing and generation decisions are more accurately resolved. This translates to improvements in overall parsing and generation results which, …
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An intelligent question: answering system for natural language
… Linguistics theories, such as the Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) theory complemented with Artificial Intelligence representation and processing techniques. A prototype Question-Answering System has been developed. It takes Natural Language parsed interrogatives, produces the Functional …
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Treebank-based automatic acquisition of wide coverage, deep linguistic resources for Japanese
… resources in the framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG). After introducing the basic framework of LFG in Chapter 2, I describe the core syntactic and morphological aspects of Japanese in Chapter 3: non-configurationality; the concept of "bunsetsu" r syntactic units and their …
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Treebank-based acquisition of Chinese LFG resources for parsing and generation
… acquire robust,wide-coverage Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) resources for Chinese parsing and generation, which is part of a larger project on the rapid construction of deep, large-scale, constraint-based, multilingual grammatical resources. I present an application-oriented LFG …
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Morphology, analogy and machine translation
… coming from "Word and Paradigm Morphology" and "Functional Grammar". Inthe end, an original computational framework is presented in somewhat detail, thatcrucially hinges on the notion of linguistic Analogy, as an effective, formal procedure forextending linguistic generalizations from known cases …
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Natural Arabic language text understanding
… of its rich computational, morphological and grammar rules. Among different representation techniques, Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) theory is found to be best suited for this task because of its structural approach. LFG lays down a computational approach towards NLP, especially the …
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Range and variability of reporting verbs in Doctoral Theses of Humanities students
… works. Social Constructionism and Systemic Functional Grammar were the theoretical underpinnings that guided this largely qualitative study because the use of reporting verbs in the construction of text is a shared experience, negotiated within a social and cultural setting. Data analysis …
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Negation in Turaif Arabic: Not the last word.
… negation in TA within the framework of Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG). The main focus of this study is on the syntax of sentential and constituent negation, negative coordination, and negative sensitive items. I additionally deal with issues related to neg raising predicates and universal …
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