Abstract. We define Probabilistic Constrained W-grammars (PCWgrammars), a two-level formalism capable of capturing grammatical frameworks used in two state of the art parsers, nam...
Disfluencies include editing terms such as uh and um as well as repeats and revisions. Little is known about how disfluencies are processed, and there has been next to no research...
Fernanda Ferreira, Ellen F. Lau, Karl G. D. Bailey
This paper proposes a novel approach to the problem of training classifiers to detect and correct grammar and usage errors in text by selectively introducing mistakes into the tra...
according to this definition2. Each elementary tree is constrained to have at least one terminal at its frontier which serves as 'head' (or 'anchor'). Sentence...
As an application of NLP to computer-assisted language learning(CALL) , we propose a diagnostic processing of Japanese being able to detect errors and inappropriateness of sentenc...