Evaluating Universal Dependency Parser Recovery of Predicate Argument Structure via CompChain Analysis

no code implementations • Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics 2021 • Sagar Indurkhya, Beracah Yankama, Robert C. Berwick

We analyzed the distribution of compchains in three UD English treebanks, EWT, GUM and LinES, revealing that these treebanks are sparse with respect to sentences with predicate-argument structure that includes predicate-argument embedding.

Dependency Parsing

A large scale annotated child language construction database

no code implementations • LREC 2012 • Aline Villavicencio, Beracah Yankama, Marco Idiart, Robert Berwick

This paper describes such an initiative for combining information from various sources to extend the annotation of the English CHILDES corpora with linguistic, psycholinguistic and distributional information, along with an example illustrating an application of this approach to the extraction of verb alternation information.

Language Acquisition POS +1

An annotated English child language database

no code implementations • WS 2012 • Aline Villavicencio, Beracah Yankama, Rodrigo Wilkens, Marco Idiart, Robert Berwick

Language Acquisition Lemmatization

Get out but don't fall down: verb-particle constructions in child language

no code implementations • WS 2012 • Aline Villavicencio, Marco Idiart, Carlos Ramisch, V{\'\i}tor Ara{\'u}jo, Beracah Yankama, Robert Berwick

Language Acquisition