Annie Zaenen

Stanford University, Linguistics, Adjunct Professor

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Subject inversion in French: equality and inequality in LFG

Empirical issues in syntax and semantics, 2003

Abstract: We reanalyze the data presented in Bonami, Godard and Marandin (1999), Bonami & Godard ... more Abstract: We reanalyze the data presented in Bonami, Godard and Marandin (1999), Bonami & Godard (2001) and Marandin (2001) in an LFG framework and show that the facts about Stylistic Inversion fall out of the LFG treatment of equality. This treatment, however, necessitates a different approach to object-control and objectraising constructions. We treat these as cases of subsumption and suggest that subsumption, not equality, might be the default way of modeling this type of relation across languages

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Cherche linguiste-informaticien désespérement

Tal Traitement Automatique Des Langues, 1996

Les As. expriment leurs difficultes a trouver les specialistes dont ils ont besoin au Centre de r... more Les As. expriment leurs difficultes a trouver les specialistes dont ils ont besoin au Centre de recherche Rank Xerox a Grenoble. Les etudiants francais en effet sont a l'heure actuelle generalement assez mal prepares a la recherche en TALN en milieu industriel. Les As. montrent que, compte-tenu de la diversite des domaines que rencontre le TALN et des faibles moyens des universites, il est souhaitable de mettre en place des cursus specialises, formant des experts en linguistique capables de collaborer avec des experts en informatique, et vice-versa. Ils comparent ainsi le systeme francais aux cursus americains qui privilegient a juste titre le travail collectif en equipe

Local Constraints vs. Economy David E. Johnson and Shalom Lappin (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center and King's College, University of London) Stanford, CA : CSLI Publications (Stanford monographs in linguistics), 1999 , x+150 pp; distributed by Cambridge University Press ; hardbound, ISBN 1-57...

Coli, 2000

Systematic Polysemy in Lexicoilogy and Lexicography

Resultatives in Papers in Lexical-Functional Grammar

Systematic polysemy in lexicology and lexicography

Proceedings of EURALEX, 1992

The phenomenon of systematic polysemy offers a fruitful do main forexamlnlng the theoretical diff... more The phenomenon of systematic polysemy offers a fruitful do main forexamlnlng the theoretical differences between lexicological and lexicographic approaches to description. We consider here the process that provides for systematic conversion of count to mass nouns in English (a chicken ^ chicken, an oak ^ oak etc.). From the point of vlew of lexicology, we argue, standard syntactic and pragmatic tests suggest the phenomenon should be described by means of a single unlndlvlduated transfer function thatdoes notdlstlnguish between interpretations (rabbit = "meat" vs. "fur"). From thepointofviewoflexicography. however, these pragmatically determined "sense precisions" are made part of explicit description via the inclusion ofsemantlc "llcenses,"a mechanism distinct from lexical rules.

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Long-distance dependencies, constituent structure, and functional uncertainty

Formal Issues in Lexical-Functional Grammar, 1995

Tree representations are used in generative grammar to represent very different types of informat... more Tree representations are used in generative grammar to represent very different types of information. Whereas in structuralist practice (at least as reconstructed by early transformationalists), Phrase Structure Markers were used to represent surface cooccurrence patterns, transformational grammar extended their use to more abstract underlying structures where they represent, for example,'grammatical relations'. The claim embodied in this extension is that the primitives of a tree representation, namely, linear ...

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Designing Annotation Schemes: From Theory to Model

Handbook of Linguistic Annotation, 2017

In this chapter, we describe the method and process of transforming the theoretical formulations ... more In this chapter, we describe the method and process of transforming the theoretical formulations of a linguistic phenomenon, based on empirical observations, into a model that can be used for the development of a language annotation specification. We outline this procedure generally, and then examine the steps in detail by specific example. We look at how this methodology has been implemented in the creation of TimeML (and ISO-TimeML), a broad-based standard for annotating temporal information in natural language texts. Because of the scope of this effort and the richness of the theoretical work in the area, the development of TimeML illustrates very clearly the methodology of the early stages of the MATTER annotation cycle, where initial models and schemas cycle through progressively mature versions of the resulting specification. Furthermore, the subsequent effort to convert TimeML into an ISO compliant standard, ISO-TimeML, demonstrates the utility of the CASCADES model in distinguishing between the concrete syntax of the schema and abstract syntax of the model behind it.

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Systems and methods for displaying interactive topic-based text summaries

Techniques for displaying interactive topic-based summarization are provided. A text to be summar... more Techniques for displaying interactive topic-based summarization are provided. A text to be summarized is segmented. Discrete keyword, key-phrase, n-gram, sentence and other sentence constituent based summaries are generated based on statistical measures for each text segment. Interactive topic-based summaries are displayed with human sensible omitted text indicators such as alternate colors, fonts, sounds, tactile elements or other human sensible display characteristics useful in indicating omitted text. Individual and/or ...

Representing paths of motion in representing paths of motion in VerbNet

Book Reviews Local Constraints vs. Economy

according to a local version of economy to one based on an HPSG local-constraint approach. The la... more according to a local version of economy to one based on an HPSG local-constraint approach. The last chapter addresses issues of theory construction in general. The general argument developed in the second chapter is somewhat awkward: the authors want to show that the three main economy principles proposed by Chomsky (Procrastinate, the Smallest Derivation Principle, and "Have an Effect on Output") are unnecessary. They do this mainly by showing that other, more GB-like, mechanisms could account for the same data. Given the limited amount of data discussed (a lot of the discussion centers on the contrast between There seems to be somebody in the room and *There seems somebody to be in the room), it would be rather astonishing if this were not the case. We get here the familiar dialogue des sourds where one party points out descriptive problems and alternatives whereas the other party is arguing about "explanatory" adequacy. The discussion allows the authors to mak...

3. Lexical Functional Grammar

Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 1991

Tense and aspect

Joan Bresnan, Cross-serial Dependencies in

George N. Clements String-Vacuous Rule

Linguistic Inquiry, 1983

In this article, we will argue on the basis of data in three languages, Icelandic, Kikuyu, and Ir... more In this article, we will argue on the basis of data in three languages, Icelandic, Kikuyu, and Irish, that string-vacuous rule application must be allowed by the theory of grammar. In languages like English, constructions such as wh-questions and relative clauses involve a dependency between an element in sentence-initial position and an empty position or gap within the sentence. The conditions on this dependency can be expressed in different ways, eg through a movement or deletion rule as in transformational gram-mar, or through ...

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Method and system for grammatical text condensation

Abstract: Techniques are provided for determining grammatical condensed text structures. Packed s... more Abstract: Techniques are provided for determining grammatical condensed text structures. Packed structures are determined for text structures based on a parsing grammar. Reduced packed structures are determined by applying transformation rules to packed and/or unpacked elements of the packed structures. A disambiguation model is applied to the reduced packed structure to determine candidate structures. A grammatically correct generation grammar is applied to the candidate structures to determine grammatical ...

Subjects and other subjects: proceedings of the Harvard Conference on the Representation of Grammatical Relations, December, 1981

Papers in lexical-functional grammar

Includes bibliographies. Objects, themes, and lexical rules in Italian/Mark Baker--Move NP or lex... more

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Thr ainsson, H.(1985). Case & Grammatical Functions: The Icelandic Passive

Syntax and Semantics

Reflexivization variation: Relations between syntax, semantics, and lexical structure

Working Papers in Grammatical Theory and Discourse Structure CSLI: Stanford, 1987

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