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Constraint programming in computational linguistics

2004
Constraint programming is a programming paradigm that was originally invented in computer science to deal with hard combinatorial problems. Recently, constraint programming has evolved into a technology which permits to solve hard industrial scheduling and optimization problems. We argue that existing constraint programming technology can be useful for
Koller, Alexander, Niehren, Joachim
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Linguistic Constraint Systems as General Soft Constraint Satisfaction

Research on Language and Computation, 2008
This paper proposes that linguistic constraint satisfaction can be viewed as an instance of general human soft constraint satisfaction. After a discussion on the relation between modularity in grammar and soft constraints and a review of the conceptions of gradient phenomena in language, the paper presents a generalized theory of soft constraint ...
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Conventionalization of Linguistic Categories under Simple Communicative Constraints

2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence), 2008
The language game approach is widely adopted to study conventionalization of linguistic knowledge. Most of contemporary models concentrate on the dynamics of language games in random or predefined social structures, but neglect the role of communicative constraints.
T. Gong, A. Puglisi, LORETO, Vittorio, W. S. Y. Wang   +3 more
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The linguistic constraints of precision of verbal working memory

Memory & Cognition, 2022
Working memory (WM) precision has received little interest in the verbal WM domain, contrary to the visual WM domain. The aim of this study was to assess the precision with which words can be maintained in verbal WM. A probe-recognition task was used, in which the amount of phonological overlap between target and probe items was varied (25-75%).
Bouffier, Marion, Poncelet, Martine, Majerus, Steve   +2 more
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Pragmatic and Linguistic Constraints on Message Formulation

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1991
This study provides a cross-linguistic replication, using American Sign Language (ASL), of the Brown and Dell (1987) finding that when relaying an action involving an instrument, English speakers are more likely to explicitly mention the instrument if it is atypically, rather than typically, used to accomplish that action.
P M, Brown, S D, Fischer, W, Janis
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Linguistic and social constraints on storytelling

Journal of Pragmatics, 1982
Abstract Remarkably consistent patterns of linguistic structuring are a surface feature of everyday oral stories. In this paper, I concentrate on the types of information found in all story texts (Event, Durative-Descriptive, and Evaluative) and the linguistic encoding and necessary inter-relationships which obtain among these information types.
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Language Modeling with Linguistic Cluster Constraints

2007
In the past, Maximum Entropy based language models were constrained by training data n-gram counts, topic estimates, and triggers. We will investigate the obtainable gains from imposing additional constraints related to linguistic clusters, such as parts of speech, semantic/syntactic word clusters, and semantic labels.
Frederick Jelinek, Jia Cui
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The linguistic constraint on contraction in children with SLI

Journal of Communication Disorders, 2018
The goal of the present study was to investigate whether children with specific language impairment (SLI) obey the constraint on contraction with the verb BE in three linguistic contexts: ellipsis, yes/no questions and embedded questions.Using elicited production methodology, a total of 51 children were tested: 17 children with SLI (mean age = 5;6); 17
Kelly, Rombough, Rosalind, Thornton
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Learning and Evolutionary Constraints on Linguistic Variability

2020
Status Quaestionis, N.
Chiera, Alessandra, Adornetti, Ines, Ferretti, Francesco   +2 more
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Functional constraints on sentence processing: A cross-linguistic study

Cognition, 1982
English and Italian provide some interesting contrasts that are relevant to a controversial problem in psycholinguistics: the boundary between grammatical and extra-grammatical knowledge in sentence processing. Although both are SVO word order languages without case inflections to indicate basic grammatical relations, Italian permits far more variation
E, Bates, S, McNew, B, MacWhinney, A, Devescovi, S, Smith   +4 more
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