Extract Similarities from Syntactic Contexts: a Distributional Semantic Model Based on Syntactic Distance [PDF]
IJCoL, 2022 Distributional Semantics (DS) models are based on the idea that two words which appear in similar contexts, i.e. similar neighborhoods, have similar meanings.
Alessandro Maisto
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Semantic Algorithmic Information Theory: From Kolmogorov Complexity to Semantic Equivalence [PDF]
EntropyClassical Algorithmic Information Theory (AIT) provides a rigorous foundation for information-based similarity measurement, but classical formulations and their compression-based approximations largely operate at the syntactic level, making them ...
Jiatong Wu +4 more
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Syntactic language change in English and German: Metrics, parsers, and convergences. [PDF]
PLoS ONESyntactic language change has gained increasing attention in recent years. Previous computational work based on dependency relations has focused on diachronic trends in dependency distance, which measures the linear distance between dependent words ...
Yanran Chen +6 more
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Relative-to-human benchmark Cognitive Divergence and semantic comprehensibility in Chinese–Uyghur LLM translation [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThis study examines whether Large Language Models (LLMs) generate Chinese-to-Uyghur translations with syntactic patterns consistent with cognitive efficiency–motivated expectations. We compare translations produced by six mainstream LLMs with a benchmark
Jiaxin Zuo +2 more
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Dependency-aware self-attention for robust neural machine translation. [PDF]
PLoS ONENeural machine translation (NMT) has significantly benefited from integrating various forms of contextual information. However, conventional Transformer-based translation models primarily rely on self-attention mechanisms that are inherently position ...
Chuncheng Chi +4 more
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Processing local transitions versus long-distance syntactic hierarchies [PDF]
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2004 A recent study by Fitch and Hauser reported that finite-state grammars can be learned by non-human primates, whereas phrase-structure grammars cannot. Humans, by contrast, learn both grammars easily. This species difference is taken as the critical juncture in the evolution of the human language faculty.
Angela Friederici
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Dependency Grammar Approach to the Syntactic Complexity in the Discourse of Alzheimer Patients [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesThis study aims to investigate the syntactic complexity in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) by conducting a comprehensive analysis that incorporates mean dependency distance (MDD), fine-grained grammatical metrics, and dependency network ...
Zhangjun Lian, Zeyu Wang
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Syntactic complexity recognition and analysis in Chinese-English machine translation: A comparative study based on the BLSTM-CRF model. [PDF]
PLoS ONETo enhance the recognition and preservation of syntactic complexity in Chinese-English translation, this study proposes an optimized Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory-Conditional Random Field (BiLSTM-CRF) model.
Yongli Tian
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The representation of syntactic action at a distance: Multidominance versus the Copy Theory
Glossa, 2016 It is a common understanding that Merge (Chomsky 1995) effectively explains the preponderance of displacement in language. That is, at least since Chomsky (2001), the mechanism that captures displacement (Internal Merge) has been recognized as something ...
Brooke Larson
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Long-Distance Agreement in Urdu Infinitival Clauses: A Syntactic Analysis
Wah Academia Journal of Global ReligionsThe aim of the current is to investigate long-distance agreement (LDA) in Urdu infinitive clauses specifically emphasizing on DPs case licensing, agreement, and movement, employing Bošković’s model (2003, 2006, 2007).
Naila Kanwal Dar, Asad Ali
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