syntactic analysis
Parsing Through Boundaries in Chinese Word Segmentation
Chen, Yige, Li, Zelong, Yang, Changbing, Zhang, Cindy, Cady, Amandisa, Lee, Ai Ka, Zeng, Zejiao, Pan, Haihua, Park, Jungyeul
Chinese word segmentation is a foundational task in natural language processing (NLP), with far-reaching effects on syntactic analysis. Unlike alphabetic languages like English, Chinese lacks explicit word boundaries, making segmentation both necessary and inherently ambiguous. This study highlights the intricate relationship between word segmentation and syntactic parsing, providing a clearer understanding of how different segmentation strategies shape dependency structures in Chinese. Focusing on the Chinese GSD treebank, we analyze multiple word boundary schemes, each reflecting distinct linguistic and computational assumptions, and examine how they influence the resulting syntactic structures. To support detailed comparison, we introduce an interactive web-based visualization tool that displays parsing outcomes across segmentation methods.
Syntactic Evolution in Language Usage
This research aims to investigate the dynamic nature of linguistic style throughout various stages of life, from post teenage to old age. By employing linguistic analysis tools and methodologies, the study will delve into the intricacies of how individuals adapt and modify their language use over time. The research uses a data set of blogs from blogger.com from 2004 and focuses on English for syntactic analysis. The findings of this research can have implications for linguistics, psychology, and communication studies, shedding light on the intricate relationship between age and language.
What Makes Language Models Good-enough?
Psycholinguistic research suggests that humans may build a representation of linguistic input that is 'good-enough' for the task at hand. This study examines what architectural features make language models learn human-like good-enough language processing. We focus on the number of layers and self-attention heads in Transformers. We create a good-enough language processing (GELP) evaluation dataset (7,680 examples), which is designed to test the effects of two plausibility types, eight construction types, and three degrees of memory cost on language processing. To annotate GELP, we first conduct a crowdsourcing experiment whose design follows prior psycholinguistic studies. Our model evaluation against the annotated GELP then reveals that the full model as well as models with fewer layers and/or self-attention heads exhibit a good-enough performance. This result suggests that models with shallower depth and fewer heads can learn good-enough language processing.
Persian Semantic Role Labeling Using Transfer Learning and BERT-Based Models
Aghdam, Saeideh Niksirat, Hossayni, Sayyed Ali, Sadeh, Erfan Khedersolh, Khozouei, Nasim, Bidgoli, Behrouz Minaei
Semantic role labeling (SRL) is the process of detecting the predicate-argument structure of each predicate in a sentence. SRL plays a crucial role as a pre-processing step in many NLP applications such as topic and concept extraction, question answering, summarization, machine translation, sentiment analysis, and text mining. Recently, in many languages, unified SRL dragged lots of attention due to its outstanding performance, which is the result of overcoming the error propagation problem. However, regarding the Persian language, all previous works have focused on traditional methods of SRL leading to a drop in accuracy and imposing expensive feature extraction steps in terms of financial resources, time and energy consumption. In this work, we present an end-to-end SRL method that not only eliminates the need for feature extraction but also outperforms existing methods in facing new samples in practical situations. The proposed method does not employ any auxiliary features and shows more than 16 (83.16) percent improvement in accuracy against previous methods in similar circumstances.
A ``Shape Aware'' Model for semi-supervised Learning of Objects and its Context
Integrating semantic and syntactic analysis is essential for document analysis. Using an analogous reasoning, we present an approach that combines bag-of-words and spatial models to perform semantic and syntactic analysis for recognition of an object based on its internal appearance and its context. We argue that while object recognition requires modeling relative spatial locations of image features within the object, a bag-of-word is sufficient for representing context. Learning such a model from weakly labeled data involves labeling of features into two classes: foreground(object) or ''informative'' background(context). labeling. We present a ''shape-aware'' model which utilizes contour information for efficient and accurate labeling of features in the image.
Most Frequently Asked NLP Interview Questions - Analytics Vidhya
This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Natural language processing (NLP) is the branch of computer science and, more specifically, the domain of artificial intelligence (AI) that focuses on providing computers the ability to understand written and spoken language in a way similar to that of humans. Combining computational linguistics (rule-based modeling of human language) with statistical, machine learning, and deep learning models is natural language processing (NLP). Together, these technologies enable computers to'understand' the whole meaning of human language in the form of text or speech data, including the speaker's or writer's purpose and emotion. NLP is the driving force behind computer systems that translate text from one language to another, respond to spoken commands, and swiftly summarise massive amounts of information--even in real-time.
Natural Language Processing and AI
Natural Language Processing (NPL) is playing an important role in Artificial Intelligence. Natural Language Processing widely known as NLP is a part of machine learning. NLP has the potential to recognize, analyze, exploit and produce human language. Due to its capability, it's extremely useful for computers to analyze the text and detect spam emails, autocorrect, etc. Basically, you can say it's a junction of Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, and Computer Linguistics. As we know computer systems understand only the language of 0 and 1.
A Shape Aware'' Model for semi-supervised Learning of Objects and its Context
Gupta, Abhinav, Shi, Jianbo, Davis, Larry S.
Integrating semantic and syntactic analysis is essential for document analysis. Using an analogous reasoning, we present an approach that combines bag-of-words and spatial models to perform semantic and syntactic analysis for recognition of an object based on its internal appearance and its context. We argue that while object recognition requires modeling relative spatial locations of image features within the object, a bag-of-word is sufficient for representing context. Learning such a model from weakly labeled data involves labeling of features into two classes: foreground(object) or ''informative'' background(context). labeling. We present a ''shape-aware'' model which utilizes contour information for efficient and accurate labeling of features in the image.
Natural Language Processing Key Terms, Explained
Very broadly, natural language processing (NLP) is a discipline which is interested in how human languages, and, to some extent, the humans who speak them, interact with technology. If a document collection's words are ordered by frequency, and y is used to describe the number of times that the xth word appears, Zipf's observation is concisely captured as y cx-1/2 (item frequency is inversely proportional to item rank). Also known as meaning generation, semantic analysis is interested in determining the meaning of text selections (either character or word sequences). After an input selection of text is read and parsed (analyzed syntactically), the text selection can then be interpreted for meaning.
Syntactic Analysis Based on Morphological Characteristic Features of the Romanian Language
This paper refers to the syntactic analysis of phrases in Romanian, as an important process of natural language processing. We will suggest a real-time solution, based on the idea of using some words or groups of words that indicate grammatical category; and some specific endings of some parts of sentence. Our idea is based on some characteristics of the Romanian language, where some prepositions, adverbs or some specific endings can provide a lot of information about the structure of a complex sentence. Such characteristics can be found in other languages, too, such as French. Using a special grammar, we developed a system (DIASEXP) that can perform a dialogue in natural language with assertive and interogative sentences about a "story" (a set of sentences describing some events from the real life).