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Description (abstract)
The purpose of the proposed project is to transform the discovered idea into a new methodology by demonstrating a finite-state dependency syntactic grammar and its parser (analyser) that works linguistically adequately in practice. That is, it covers the observed non-projective structures and generalises it to unseen data via language-specific knowledge and linguistically universal statistical learning.
The new methodology will be excellent due to its combinatorial characteristics and faithfulness to the observed complexity of natural language. It does not trivialise the structural ambiguity of natural language like the state-of-the-art methods but rather uses its compact representation to factor and store the ambiguity as well. The stored ambiguity could be further disambiguated with highly accurate constraint grammars or language models by exploiting the closure properties of finite-state languages. This does not trivialise the lexical features, but models full lexical frames instead. It seems also possible that the empirical studies will motivate a rather low characterisation for the descriptive complexity of the parser, which would advance the Occamistic elegance in the linguistic methodology. Moreover, the existence of a fast and structurally accurate and language-independent finite-state parser would be a significant contribution in the debate that concerns the adequacy of finite-state grammars and the practical relevance of the generative, idealistic view of language.
Layman's description
Acronym | ADEQSYNTAX |
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Status | Finished |
Effective start/end date | 01/09/2013 → 30/04/2019 |
Funding
- Suomen tietokirjailijat: €3,000.00
Fields of Science
- 113 Computer and information sciences
- automata theory
- formal language theory
- coding theory
- finite-state transducers
- nonprojectivity
- projectivity
- 6121 Languages
- Autosegmental Phonology
- representations
- grammars
- functional syntax
- dependency syntax
- syntactic parsing
- syntactic complexity
- 111 Mathematics
- bijections
- sekvential functions
- graphs
Equipment
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nVidia GTX Titan X GPU Workstation
Yli-Jyrä, A. (Manager)
Language TechnologyFacility/equipment: Equipment
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nVidia RTX 2080Ti GPU for a Workstation
Yli-Jyrä, A. (Manager)
Language TechnologyFacility/equipment: Equipment
Projects
- 1 Finished
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Graph-Based Representation of Cross-Lingual Alignments
Abend, O. (Participant), Ronning, M. (Other) & Miles, G. (Other)
01/01/2018 → 17/01/2020
Project: Research project
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A Derivational Model of Discontinuous Parsing
Nederhof, M.-J. & Yli-Jyrä, A., 12 Jul 2021, In: Information and Computation. 279, 104619.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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On Practical Realisation of Autosegmental Representations in Lexical Transducers of Tonal Bantu Languages
Yli-Jyrä, A., 2020, Proceedings of the Language Technologies for All (LT4All). Adda, G., Choukri, K., Kasinskaite-Buddeberg, I., Mariani, J., Mazo, H. & Sakriani, S. (eds.). Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 346-349 4 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review
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Constraint Grammar As a Hand-Crafted Transformer
Yli-Jyrä, A., 2019.Research output: Conference materials › Paper › peer-review
Activities
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The Rachel and Selim Benin School of Engineering and Computer Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Yli-Jyrä, A. (Visiting researcher), Ronning, M. (Other role), Ronning, H. (Other role) & Abend, O. (Other role)
1 Jan 2020 → 17 Jan 2020Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Academic visit to other institution
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The Rachel and Selim Benin School of Engineering and Computer Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Yli-Jyrä, A. (Visiting researcher)
10 Dec 2019 → 19 Dec 2019Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Academic visit to other institution
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Logic Seminar Talk: Embedding Graphs to the String Space to Support Succinct Representation of Graph Properties
Yli-Jyrä, A. (Speaker)
30 Oct 2019Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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