This thesis reports an annotation on Chinese modal expressions in Chinese Treebank (CHTB) 4.0, with eleven attributes that may affect the reading of modal expressions. The annotated data provide distributional information ...

This work develops a computational methodology new to linguistics that empirically evaluates competing linguistic theories on Spanish verbal mood choice through the use of computational techniques to learn mood and other ...

This thesis presents recent work on a new method to automatically extract fine-grained duration information for common verbs using a large corpus of Twitter tweets. I present the results of distinguishing between habitual ...

This dissertation investigates the temporal relation identification

With the rapid advancement in computing powers, recent years have seen the availability of large scale corpora of speech audio data, and within it, fundamental frequency (f0) time-series data of speech prosody. However, ...

Narrative schemas are generalizations of frequently re-occurring sequences of events linked through co-referring entities in text (Chambers & Jurafsky, 2009). The use of such schemas in the unsupervised analysis of text ...

Named Entity Recognition (NER) has always been one significant part of Natural Language Processing technologies. This thesis investigates a range of approaches to address the NER task in isiZulu, a morphologically complex ...

Many Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) tasks require some implicit representation of meaning. Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR; Banarescu et al., 2013) aims to be a scalable way ...